Tag: France
France Blocks Italian Train Carrying Tunisian Immigrants
France has temporarily blocked the Italian rail company’s trains coming into Menton, France from the Italian border station of Ventimiglia. This was to stop North African migrants from entering the country. Due to the tension in North Africa and the Middle East, a number of people fled the region for Europe. Unfortunately, as reported by [...]
Gerard Cordon French Mayor Removes Marianne Statue’s Breasts
Here’s a hit to the art world as a mayor of a French town got upset about a statue because it had big boobs on it so he had it removed. The bust, no pun intended is of Marianne who art aficionados will recognize as the traditional image of the French Republic in a Phrygian [...]
Alain Robert On World’s Tallest Tower
The Spider-Man musical on Broadway may be in a mess but that isn’t the case of one real life Spider-Man named Alain Robert from France is doing his superhero bit by climbing tall buildings. Robert climed the world’s tallest building in Dubai and it took him six hours to scale the 2,717 foot high skyscraper. [...]
Paris Grandmother Survives Three Weeks In Toilet
Paris Grandmother Survives Three Weeks In Toilet – One 69 year-old French woman was trapped in a windowless bathroom for 20 consecutive days without anyone. Eventually firefighters from the Parisian area broke down the bathroom door in the elderly woman’s apartment to get her out. When the lock broke, the woman was trapped inside with [...]
