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Despite the crowds, the noise and the distinct odour of piss, I was in love. The kind of love which inspires one to risk life, limb and deportation to get up close and personal.
via sleepycity via BoingBoing
The Galeries Lafayette has an iPhone app out for Christmas! Download if from the App Store.
via VIPad.fr
With Google Earth’s “3D Buildings” layer turned on (or by using the Google Earth plug-in for Google Maps) you can wander the streets of the Montmartre district made famous by artists like Picasso, Van Gogh and Dalí from your living room.
via Google LatLong
Parisian architect Patrick Nadeau is currently constructing a gorgeous green house disguised as a grassy hill in the city of Reims, France.
via Inhabitat
In the warehouses of the former shipyards in Nantes, les Machines de l’Ile project is the work of two artists, François Delarozière and Pierre Orefice, who envisioned a travel-through-time world at the crossroads of the imaginary worlds of Jules Verne and the mechanical universe of Leonardo da Vinci. (Wikipedia)
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Some offices will get Citroen Berlingo electric delivery vans (pictured above), many of which are already on the roads. Other postal carriers will have their four wheels replaced by electric bicycles, and still others will have to walk, aided by an electronic trolley.
via Gas 2.0
At the moment, the official SI definition of a kilogramme is a mass equal to that of the international prototype kilogramme, a cylinder of platinum and iridium kept inside several nested glass cases in an environmentally monitored vault in France at the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures outside Paris. The kilogramme was [...]
According to UnBeige, “the app features what you’d expect, from narrated tours, videos, scans of the collection, more detailed descriptions, and so on.”
The Art of Bugatti is about upper-crust living in France before WWII, complete with chateaux, gentlemen zoo-keepers with a penchant for the exotic, morose artist brothers and bohemian undercurrents.
Buy The Art of Bugatti directly from the publisher and ask if you’d like it signed by the author!
via Forbes
Perpignan is one of 60 French towns that have struck upon a cheaper and greener way to collect household waste – ditching the dustbin lorry in favour of a horse and cart.
via Guardian.co.uk
We were starting to get worried that an auto show in France was lacking in Gallic oddities. Then Citroën showed off the Lacoste, a compact concept with an inflatable roof, no doors and a power lowering windshield. Bon dieu!
via Jalopnik.com
‘Truth is naked and inexorable. It brings stunning freedom to the midst of the pressure of contingent forces. The pure solution, compressed by constraints, appears like an essence, like a crystal. The rules of the game emerge; the game is won.’
Complete article. Seen @fadereau, image mr prudence
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Google boss Eric Schmidt met President Nicolas Sarkozy to discuss the plans that include “the opening of a new engineering centre in Paris and the creation of a European institute for culture.”
via AFP, image: Google Bastille Day doodle 2007
