Hi, My husband and I are traveling to Europe for the Christmas
holidays and will be in Paris over New Year’s. Any advice?
What is customary for celebrating? Are any of the museums open?
Any ideas on the best places to spend New Year’s Eve? How
soon in advance do we need reservations??
Surrounded by hundreds of police, French comedian Dieudonne took his act out onto the streets of Paris on Friday after his show at a top theatre was cancelled due to an anti-Semitism row.
Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala appeared in a television sketch in December dressed as an Orthodox rabbi and gave a Nazi salute. The Olympia theatre cancelled Friday’s planned show due to security fears after protests marred previous performances.
“Tonight is a battle for freedom of expression,” Dieudonne told an audience of around 300, flanked by as many police officers, gathered outside the Olympia in central Paris.
“Don’t gag me — I am one of the few black performers on the French stage,” added Dieudonne, whose father is Senegalese.
Read MoreDirector Denys Arcand’s “The Barbarian Invasions,” the story of a professor whose friends rally around him as he dies of cancer, won best picture award at France’s version of the Oscars on Saturday.
Arcand, a Canadian, also took the honors for best director and best screenplay at the 2004 Cesar Awards.
The movie has also been nominated for an Oscar for best foreign picture, and it had critics laughing and crying at the Cannes Film Festival this spring.
Meanwhile, Clint Eastwood won the best foreign film award for “Mystic River,” a dark drama about friends haunted by a tragedy from their childhoods. Omar Sharif captured the best actor prize for his performance in “Mr. Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Quran.” He played Parisian grocer who befriends a young French boy.
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Read MoreWhat’s up everyone this is Coko i am American and I love to have fun like going to the movies,talking on the phone and playing basketball. I am not that good talking in french so if you speak french really well I would like you to help me out alittle. thank you
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Read MoreNational statistics office INSEE said on Friday the French economy, the euro zone’s second largest after Germany, grew 0.5 percent in the October-December period. This confirmed a “flash estimate” released last week and met market expectations.
Over the full year, the economy grew a just 0.2 percent in 2003, the lowest since a contraction in 1993, INSEE confirmed. The fourth quarter growth rate was in line with the mid-range forecast given by economists polled by Reuters.
“This growth is due to the world rebound, which in turn is driving investment in France, and imports,” said J.P. Morgan economist Maryse Pogodzinski.
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