PARIS, April 9 (Reuters) – A fledgling investigative website
has made its mark as the top French media exposing government
sleaze, with its coup against a minister leaving national
newspapers playing catch-up and other politicians quaking.

After a late-2000s debut uncovering alleged graft led to the
career downfall of a conservative minister, Mediapart has
toppled a second minister, this time in the Socialist
government, showing it has no allegiance to left or right.

PARIS (Reuters) – Talking food with top French chef Alain Ducasse is like simultaneously visiting a local farmers market, travelling across the world, stepping back into history and visiting the future.

France’s ubiquitous three-star chef, whose empire includes more than 20 restaurants, a culinary institute and a publishing house, is now embracing 21st century technology with a new iPad application, “My Culinary Encyclopedia”.

PARIS (Reuters) – Talking food with top French chef Alain Ducasse is like simultaneously visiting a local farmers market, travelling across the world, stepping back into history and visiting the future.

France’s ubiquitous three-star chef, whose empire includes more than 20 restaurants, a culinary institute and a publishing house, is now embracing 21st century technology with a new iPad application, “My Culinary Encyclopedia”.

PARIS, April 9 (Reuters) – Talking food with top French chef
Alain Ducasse is like simultaneously visiting a local farmers
market, travelling across the world, stepping back into history
and visiting the future.

France’s ubiquitous three-star chef, whose empire includes
more than 20 restaurants, a culinary institute and a publishing
house, is now embracing 21st century technology with a new iPad
application, “My Culinary Encyclopedia”.

MADRID/PARIS, March 21 (Reuters) – Demand rose and costs
fell at a Spanish bond sale on Thursday, suggesting yield-hungry
investors are unconcerned that the financial turmoil in Cyprus
might spread to other parts of the euro zone.

The Treasury sold 4.5 billion euros ($5.8 billion) at the
sale of three maturities, including its 10-year benchmark,
beating the top end of its target range of 3 to 4 billion euros.

PARIS (Reuters) – She is the darling of France’s progressive left and recites poetry in parliament. He cultivates a tough-guy image and boxes to keep fit.

Justice Minister Christiane Taubira and Interior Minister Manuel Valls are the unlikely “good cop, bad cop” team tasked by Socialist President Francois Hollande with pushing through his latest sensitive reform: overhauling France’s teeming prisons.

PARIS (Reuters) – Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has given his strongest hint yet that he might make a comeback bid in 2017, telling a magazine a sense of duty to fix the economy might oblige him to run.

Sarkozy’s remarks in the right-leaning weekly Valeurs Actuelles, due out on Thursday, will increase speculation he could return to politics – talk that has not abated since the conservative was ousted by Socialist Francois Hollande last May.

PARIS, March 5 (Reuters) – An enormous globe rotated slowly
in the middle of a circular catwalk at Chanel’s ready-to-wear
fashion show in Paris on Tuesday, with flags bearing the brand
logo marking where the luxury label operates stores.

Only Chanel’s creative director Karl Lagerfeld knows if the
globe was a sign of global expansion or a geography lesson for
the well-heeled crowd at his show, many dressed in the Chanel
label that appeals to a global audience with money to spend.

PARIS, March 5 (Reuters) – An enormous globe rotated slowly
in the middle of a circular catwalk at Chanel’s ready-to-wear
fashion show in Paris on Tuesday, with flags bearing the Chanel
logo marking where the luxury brand operates stores.

Only Chanel’s creative director Karl Lagerfeld knows if the
globe was a sign of global expansion or a geography lesson for
the well-heeled crowd at his show, many dressed in the Chanel
label that appeals to a global audience with money to spend.

PARIS, March 4 (Reuters) – With the spirit of 1990s grunge
pervading the runway, it wasn’t your mother’s YSL at the Saint
Laurent fashion show in Paris on Monday night.

New designer Hedi Slimane channelled the Seattle scene in
the era of grunge-rock band Nirvana. Models in ratty Courtney
Love hairdos moved sullenly down the catwalk, with shapeless
plaid lumberjack shirts covering babydoll dresses cut up to
there.