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Great Fête de la musique 2025 and La Vasque has risen 😊💃🎼

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Aix-Marseille is an asylum for [American] scientists. Bottom right: "We didn't want to leave the US" From today's La Provence.

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L’été est là, c’est la #fetedelamusique 🎶 Les Coqs Festifs partagent leur playlist spéciale fiertés 🏳️‍🌈 Rendez-vous la semaine prochaine sur notre char Rugby Is My Pride à la Marche des fiertés ! 🐓🏉

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Sadly, the now-famous summer activation of the former highway for cars running alone the Seine River in Paris, transforming it into a vibrant and popular people-place, doesn’t start for another two weeks. So this is all that’s going on. Yes, I’m being sarcastic. #ParisPlage

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It's fucking hot, putain 🥵 So find all your vital info for French heatwaves; 🇫🇷 Latest weather alerts & govt advice 🇫🇷 How the French stay cool and why sleeping naked is advised against 🇫🇷 Hottest and coolest places in France 🇫🇷 Phrases to complain about the heat . . . and much, much more!

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Love this celebration of the brilliance of city mass transit systems

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A personal manifesto on an important topic - how to have the best night at the Fête de la musique 🇫🇷 Ignore big names and big cities 🇫🇷 Always check out the oud band 🇫🇷 Dress to dance all night 💃

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Really enjoyed this, bit more abstract and weird than the first two, but in a good way

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Rail experts explain 🇫🇷 How France got so good at high-speed rail 🇫🇷 How it keeps build costs comparatively low 🇫🇷 How the TGV has created a 'two tier' system at the expense of the local train network Thanks to @jonworth.eu and @hsrail.bsky.social

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Paris Metro drivers call strike over working conditions

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New podcast episode; 🇫🇷 Dodgy French politicians in court 🇫🇷 How France built such a good rail network for (comparatively) little money 🇫🇷 France's 'name police' come for Elizabeth Taylor PLUS - why swearing is fun, especially in French

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Happy Pride from Bagnolet 🏳️‍🌈

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The political conversation in France around race/religion/immigration is mostly depressing and awful. But the country's long-running racism survey shows that the general population is slowly but surely becoming more tolerant and less likely to hold racist opinions

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Good news from the UK - the criminal justice system is not the place for healthcare decisions

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Another French 'fake jobs' embezzlement case - François Fillon (PM 2007-12 and presidential candidate in 2017) has finally exhausted the appeals process and was sentenced today; 🇫🇷 4 years in prison, suspended sentence 🇫🇷 €375,000 fine 🇫🇷 5 year ban on holding political office

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Just getting my research done early, since it's predicted to hit 35C in Paris on Friday 🥵

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Hmm, not sure about this American remake of Le Bureau des légendes . . For me what made the 🇫🇷 original so special was that it's a spy series that is incredibly tense and gripping but actually involves very little shooting/shouting/car chases

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Across France today, thousands of 18-year-olds are sitting down to their compulsory philosophy exam

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Summmer's here 😎

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Personally I'm quite sweary in English, but I'm more circumspect about French swearing as I worry that I sound stupid

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That's a very unfortunate typo as 🇬🇧🇫🇷 'border' control becomes 'bordel' (French for 'fuck up/chaos') 😂

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It's coming back! 🎈

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New podcast episode 🇫🇷 Rising violence in French schools 🇫🇷 The threat from the extreme right 🇫🇷 Plans to make the Seine a legal 'person' 🇫🇷 And the French inventions that changed the world

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www.thelocal.fr/20250611/opi...

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If you, like me, are reading the various announcements of new/expanded/improved cross-Channel rail links with increasing scepticism, then 👇

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I'm a disgrace to my nation and in fact strongly dislike black tea with milk - but I got a proper Brit to write this guide to tea-drinking in France

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Every time I go to the UK my French phone provider attempts a different British themed joke . . 🐟🍟🤴 (no jokes for Germany though)

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The 🇫🇷 Parti socialiste doing their best to bring political drama with a 'turbulent night' of close voting in their leadership poll . . . 6/10 for effort, 0/10 for timing

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Paris city hall has applied for 'legal personhood' for the River Seine. This is a legal protection status, but the Seine already has a personification - Sequana, the goddess of the river, as pictured galloping along it on a ghostly horse during the Olympics opening ceremony last summer (Photo: AFP)

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New podcast episode . . . 🇫🇷 Did Uber really change the face of France? (and did François Hollande go and pick Courtney Love up from the airport?) 🇫🇷 Will France ever ban smoking on café terraces? 🇫🇷 And how you can (legally) move to France and work remotely

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Marine Le Pen loses latest round of legal battle against ban from politics

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The British right wing press sure does love recycling when it comes to that 'The French are the enemy' headline 😂

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As I recall it, we just wasted a lot of time getting lost, poring over the A-Z and giving/receiving ridiculously detailed directions (turn left just after the burnt-out pub but before the all-night garage, if you get to the phone box you've gone too far)

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Fascinating comparison between the 'partisan loyalties above the facts' aspect of the Dreyfus Affair, and the global politics of 2025

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