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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 2h

Sorry, hopefully this is not a spoiler! I wasn't really blown away by the series but it does have a cracking soundtrack. Really hope these unsolicited translations are not a sign of things to come

Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 2h

I've recently been watching an English-language Netflix show, in English with the subtitles turned off - but because I am in France, Netflix has decided to 'helpfully' translate all the posters and notices that appear in the show into French.
Has anyone else noticed this? It's really annoying!

Screenshot from the English-language Netflix show House of Guinness, in which an election poster has been automatically translated into French to read 'rassemblement électoral, midi 4 août', instead of its original 'election hustings, 12 noon, August 4'

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 7h

He may have, ahem, one or two issues on the domestic front - but on this topic Macron is 100% correct

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 4d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 8h

I usually find Simon Calder pretty accurate, but this does seem to over-complicate massively. I think part of the problem is that media cannot come straight out and say 'just lie and tick yes to everything, no-one is ever going to check', even if that's what they're clearly implying

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 9h

In case anyone is curious about what EES really means for second-home owners

What EES changes for second-home owners in France

The EU's new EES passport checks come into force in October - if you are a second-home owner in France, here's what it means for you.

www.thelocal.fr

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 10h

Totally. Also, lovely use of 'cursèd' - we don't see that often enough these days

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 11h

Completely ridiculous headline - the 90-day rule has applied to Brits since 2021 (due to Brexit). Second-home owners who want to stay longer have the option of applying for a short-stay visitor visa

Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 23h

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 1d

New podcast episode - What the fuck is going on in 🇫🇷?
(I'm aware that it's sort of my job to know the answer to that question, but I really don't know and - more worryingly - it doesn't seem like anyone else does either)
Plus;
Why is there a French egg shortage?
Is it OK to be late in France?

Talking France: What the f**k is going on in France and where have all the eggs gone?

Talking France is back with a new episode, slightly earlier than planned because France has another meltdown. Forgive us for the title, but listen to the episode and you'll understand why we chose ...

pod.fo

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 1d

Amusing myself by imagining that all these headlines relate to France's prime minister being berated by his wife for not assembling the Ikea flatpack

Headline - French PM under pressure to put together cabinet

France's new PM resigns hours after cabinet unveiled

French PM in final effort to salvage cabinet

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 1d

Red sky in the morning, er . . . French resigned prime minister's warning?

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 1d

L'Humanité on point as ever - roughly translated '🇫🇷 shits the bed'

l'Humanité @humanite.fr · 1d

L’Humanité du 7 octobre
La chienlit

📰 humanite.fr

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 2d

While you're at it, I would also like a 'become rich' plan by Thursday

Headline reads 'Macron asks outgoing French PM for 'stability' plan by Wednesday

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 2d

Well over 30% of homes in the area are empty & the Paris Urban Planning Agency found that over half of the residential property owners along the Champs-Élysées owned five or more homes.
Meanwhile Paris suffers from an acute housing crisis and its population falls by around 12,000 people per year

Analysis: Why Parisians have abandoned the Champs-Élysées

The Avenue des Champs-Elysées is among the world's most famous streets, and it even has a song named after it - but these days it is increasingly being shunned by Parisians.

www.thelocal.fr

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 2d

😂 Brenda from Bordeaux?

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 2d

But on a longer-term view, this kind of chaos barely even registers since 🇫🇷 is - to use a technical term - a messy bitch that loves the drama when it comes to politics

Aux armes, citoyens!

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 2d

So what next for France, as it increasingly seems like there are no good options to get out of this mess . . .

What next for France as PM resigns after less than a month in the job?

Calm and stable it isn't. France has now lost its fifth government in two years after Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned after less than a month in the job. So what happens next?

www.thelocal.fr

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 2d

The last month in 🇫🇷 politics;
Sept 8 - PM François Bayrou resigns after losing a confidence vote that he called
Sept 9 - Macron announces Sébastien Lecornu as new PM
Evening, Oct 5 - Lecornu announces new govt
Morning, Oct 6 - Lecornu resigns

(plus a bunch of strikes & 500,000 people demonstrating)

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 2d

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 2d

You know how there’s that one mate of yours who lurches from personal crisis to personal crisis, keeps losing his job, goes through a string of emotionally devastating relationships and yet somehow comes out of it with an enviable lifestyle?

France.

Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 2d

Bloody hell. Lecornu out.

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 2d

Hahaha - what the fuck, France??

Breaking: France's prime minister resigns, hours after new government revealed

Just 12 hours after naming his new government, French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu has resigned.

www.thelocal.fr

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 2d

Following on from 'meetings that could have been an email', here's an announcement that definitely could have been made during normal working hours . .
TLDR - Meet the new government, hell of a lot like the old government

Latest: France unveils new government

French President Emmanuel Macron named a new government on Sunday, putting together a team under Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, who risks being toppled in a deeply divided parliament.

www.thelocal.fr

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 4d

Next week's strike called off

French air traffic controllers cancel three-day strike

French air traffic controllers have called off a three-day strike that threatened to disrupt European skies next week, a top union said on Saturday.

www.thelocal.fr

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Reposted by Emma Pearson

The Local France @thelocalfrance.bsky.social · 4d

Inside France: From sleazy Sarko to France's 100-year-old activist heroine

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times - or at least the best and worst of France, with the death of an extraordinary 100-year-old woman who dedicated her life to activism, and an ex-president who seems to have devoted himself to collecting criminal convictions. This, via some cave art and French grammar pedantry, is what we have been talking about in France this week.

www.thelocal.fr

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 5d

Very into this philosophy, but - fun fact! - cows kill more people per year in France than any other animal, so entrecote is back on the menu . . .

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 5d

Earlier this year I decided to stop colouring my hair and am now 100% 'silver' (grey) and I've noticed that at security checkpoints I no longer get searched or have my bags checked . . . So if anyone wants to hire me to commit crimes, my rates are very reasonable!

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 5d

“It’s important to remind young people not to compromise their values and to remain optimistic, whatever the circumstances.
Because even if the world we are facing is worrying, life has shown me that it is never time to despair.”

An incredible woman, an incredible life . . .

Frenchwoman who escaped Nazi massacre dies aged 100

Camille Senon, a feminist and union activist who narrowly escaped the Nazi massacre in her French village of Oradour-sur-Glane died on Thursday aged 100, the mayor’s office said.

www.thelocal.fr

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