· August, 2005

Stories about France from August, 2005

Homeless but Online in Paris

  29 August 2005

Farid Pouya at Iranian blog Webgardian points us to a story in French on Projet Internet du Rue (The Street Internet Project) about a homeless Internet user in Paris who's been able to complete an online job search despite having no permanent address. Farid offers a partial English translation of...

France: Drink Local, Drink Montmartre! (WBW12)

10 August 2005

Popular food blogger Clotilde Dusoulier writes about the vinyards of Montmartre, in Paris. While one does not normally associate Paris with the creation of wine, apparently a large part of what is now urban Paris had been planted with vines for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.

France: Bakon Halal

5 August 2005

The Tunisian blog Subzero Blue is happy to introduce “BKM” or Burger King Muslim, which he hopes to rival “McDo” and “KFC” with a gut appeal to France large Muslim minority.