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26 Jul 2012, 8:30 am by Sheldon Toplitt
(Photo credit: Wikipedia)France Soir, a Paris daily newspaper that at its peak in the 1960s boasted a circulation of 1.5 million, will have its assets auctioned off per a court-ordered liquidation, The Guardian reports.France Soir was acquired by Sergei Pugachvov, the scion of a Russian billionaire, in 2009, and converted to an online-only publication last December, before he jettisoned the paper in June, after reportedly investing more than 60 million pounds ($94 million) in it, according… [read post]
26 Jul 2012, 8:30 am by Sheldon Toplitt
(Photo credit: Wikipedia)France Soir, a Paris daily newspaper that at its peak in the 1960s boasted a circulation of 1.5 million, will have its assets auctioned off per a court-ordered liquidation, The Guardian reports.France Soir was acquired by Sergei Pugachvov, the scion of a Russian billionaire, in 2009, and converted to an online-only publication last December, before he jettisoned the paper in June, after reportedly investing more than 60 million pounds ($94 million) in it, according… [read post]
18 Jun 2012, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
Ghachem, University of Maine School of Law, At the Origins of Public Credit: A Story of Stock-Jobbing and Financial Crisis in Prerevolutionary France, in ‘The Financial Crisis of 2008: French and American Responses,” Proceedings of the 2010 Franco-American Legal Seminar {2011): 151-99.This paper concerns a stock jobbing scandal involving the French Company of the Indies on the eve of the French Revolution. [read post]
19 Jul 2008, 12:21 pm
The New York Times has a story today about a Morrocan immigrant denied French citizenship by France's highest administrative court for wearing the veil: "But last month, France's highest administrative court upheld a decision to deny citizenship to Ms. [read post]
3 Mar 2021, 11:22 am by Jacob Schulz
  The scandal began as a scoop that the head of the party shuttled a major campaign contract to some of his pals at Bygmalion, and the story blossomed from there. [read post]
8 Jan 2012, 5:17 pm by Lawrence B. Ebert
Issue: because the Chinese truffles are packaged in France, ok to say "Product of France. [read post]
25 Jan 2007, 4:39 am
Strange $54 Million Fee-Split Saga Haunts Thelen"Secrets, lies and betrayal are the heart of any good story. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 9:08 am by Susan Schneider
The recent outbreak of serious E. coli illness in Europe has now claimed 48 lives, and E. coli 0104:H4 is now reported to have turned up as well in Bordeaux, France. [read post]
21 Jan 2015, 9:42 am
Meanwhile, the U.S. is considered as the safest and strongest story in terms of economic growth, corporate earnings and potentially U.S. dollar appreciation. [read post]
29 Oct 2020, 12:55 pm
It's a podcast....Topics: "Woke movies, the dreary 33.1% GDP spurt, Kanye’s way, kind of like Verlaine and Rimbaud, enough is enough in France, Democrats and Republicans sleeping together, Trump’s womanliness. [read post]
18 Nov 2018, 9:30 pm by Mitra Sharafi
Indeed, the France of Balzac’s day was an unforgiving place for borrowers. [read post]
3 Nov 2011, 7:08 pm by justinsilverman
” Also that month, France banned the mention of “Facebook” and “Twitter” on television and radio — except when discussing a story directly involving either company — out of the competition concerns of other less popular social media outlets. [read post]
21 Oct 2007, 9:08 am
"I doubt he has yet seen today's Week in Review in the Times, in which Sciolino has a major front page story on - the reform of the French economy? [read post]
22 Jul 2008, 3:23 pm
The amendments are described in the International Herald Tribune story: Under the French Constitution, tailored for the presidency of Charles de Gaulle, the French head of state has vast powers, including the right to nominate the prime minister, dissolve the National Assembly and set the voting agenda. [read post]
18 May 2010, 6:36 pm by Julian Ku
Stories like this make France seem decidedly more unpleasant for certain Muslims than Arizona is for illegal immigrants: France had its first case of “burka rage” at the weekend when a shopper allegedly tried to pull the veil from the face of a Muslim woman and the resulting scuffle turned violent. [read post]
1 Apr 2013, 12:49 pm
Here's an interesting story from France, where home delivery of newspapers is being done by drone. [read post]