White Christmas ...

I'm dreaming of a White Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glistenand children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white.

We wish you a Merry Christmas...

We wish you a Merry Christmas,
We wish you a Merry Christmas,
We wish you a Merry Christmas,
And a Happy New Year.

Good tidings to you,
And all of your kin,
Good tidings for Christmas,
And a Happy New Year.

We all know that Santa's coming,
We all know that Santa's coming,
We all know that Santa's coming,
And soon will be here.

Good tidings to you,
And all of your kin,
Good tidings for Christmas,
And a Happy New Year.

We wish you a Merry Christmas,
We wish you a Merry Christmas,
We wish you a Merry Christmas,
And a Happy New Year.

Bachelor ... according to Garfield ...

Bachelor ... according to Garfield ...

100 years ago ...

… was born LÉOPOLD SÉDAR SENGHOR.
Statesman and Senegalese writer of French expression
Born in Joal (Senegal) on October 9, 1906 and deceased with Verson (France) on December 20, 2001

"Poetry should not perish. Because then, where would be the hope of the World?” - Léopold Sédar Senghor

Aquarium...

After a few weeks of waiting, the first fish pose their luggage in our aquarium…

The autumn or ... spring equinox!

The first day of the Autumn is given on a quite precise date according to the positioning of the sun compared to the ground.
The autumn equinox is alternate between the Northern hemisphere and the Southern hemisphere: for the countries of the Northern hemisphere, the fall equinox takes place on September 23 in 2006 whereas for those of the southern hemisphere, this same date corresponds to the spring equinox!

The first day of the Autumn corresponds to the entry during one time when the sunning decreases. It is one period of the very pleasant year, neither too heat, nor too cold, where nature offers a blazing and coloured face to us.

Derailed ...

USA (2005)
with: Cleave Owen, Jennifer Aniston, Vincent Cassel
of: Mikael Hafström
scenario: Stuart Beattie
original history: James Siegel
music: Edward Shearmur




Because one morning, Charles Schine missed his train to go to work, it made a meeting which upset its life. With the first glance, Lucinda Harris and knew to him that their history would not be like the others. They were unaware of at which point…

If you want to discover their adventures or mishaps... rent this movie!

More than 12 million visitors for the Days of the Heritage ...

PARIS (AP) - The 23e edition, this weekend, of the Days of the Heritage, joined together more than 12 million visitors, according to announced figures' Sunday by the ministry for the Culture and the Communication.
More than 15.000 sites their doors with the public under the topic opened “Make live our Heritage”.
The official places and to be able have this year still voted by plebiscite by the French, with 6.000 visitors in Matignon, 24.000 with the Senate, 7.800 with the ministry for the Interior, 20.000 with the French National Assembly and 11.851 in the Elysium. The historical places of the capital like the Pantheon with 23.600 visits, the Arc-of-Triumph with 20.565 visitors, were with the honor.
Partners of this year as the RATP accomodated more than 15.000 visitors during their various animations of which 540 attended the concert of Mozart in a workshop of maintenance. France Télévisions had for the occasion open of many sites of which its Parisian seat which received 5.000 people. The Palais Royal was visited by 7.000 people while 4.500 people went to the ministry for the Culture and the Communication.
In Alsace, 5.000 people went to the Palate from Europe to Strasbourg, to Aquitaine, 4.500 people visited the national museum of the customs hotel of the Farms of Roy in Bordeaux while 5.000 admired the castle of Pau. In North-Not-of-Calais, inter alia, 6.000 people saw the old military hospital of Lille become Préfecture of North and the 7.000 Palates from the Art schools in Lille. The abbey of the Mount-Saint-Michel, in Basse-Normandie, saw passing 12.500 visitors.
AP

Our first aquarium…

Installation this weekend of the decoration and the plants.
It is now necessary to have patience (and hope that the plants do not die) a few weeks before our aquarium can accomodate its first boarders.

To be continued ...

Happy New Year ....

… Not, it is not an error, it is quite simply Ethiopian New Year's day!

“Like the calendar copte, the Ethiopian calendar has twelve 30 days months each one plus five or six epagomenes days (usually called thirteenth month), but with names into amharic. The sixth epagomene day is added every four years on August 29 in the calendar Julien, six months before the epagomene day of this last.
Thus, Ethiopian New Year's day, 1st of the month of Mäskäräm celebrates on August 30 in the Julien calendar when the sixth day is added. For the years of the Gregorian calendar going from 1901 to 2099 included, the equivalent corresponds to September 11.
To indicate the date, the Ethiopian ones used in the beginning the Era of the Incarnation, which fixes the date of the incarnation of Jesus at March 25 of year 9 of the Christian era (Julien) (chosen by Annianus of Alexandria at the beginning of Ve century). But the first calendar year began seven months earlier, on August 29 of year 8 (Julien), which involved a eight years shift with the Gregorian comput of January 1 to September 10 then a seven years shift for the remainder of the Gregorian year. “
Wikipedia.fr source

2 days ago...

Two days ago, it was my name-day, which everyone superbly forgot!
I am offered to myself this superb rose photographed in the immense garden Londoner : “Kew Gardens”.

One year… already

One year ago, I started preparing my return in France after a few very instructive months in Munich and astronomical science (ESO with Garching) to take care of the data observed from the VLT (Broad Very Telescopes) in Chile or from HST (Hubble Space Telescope).

Talent can not be ...... bought !!!

Paris Hilton: it is caught a beautiful snap!
By public.fr
The sales of its album do not take off!
One well not thought that all succeeded with our preferred wealthy heiress, Paris Hilon is suffering into a serious reverse in its career of singer!
Only 75.000 specimens of her eponymous album “Paris” have been sold for the moment, while in only one week, Christina Aguilera already sold more than 320.000 albums! The dreams of singer of the blond bombshell is thus likely to leave very quickly in smoke… except if she does pay people to buy her album!

Poor Paris. She was sure of being a more talented actress than the awarded Charlize Théron and of replacing Madonna….
Lastly, she always has her fortune to continue her extravagances.
Money does not buy the talent, but… without talent, money and the notoriety acquired thanks to a video porn amateur, she could never have made this album!

Quotes, Lyrics ...

Here, you will find a couple of English quotes or lyrics and a lot of French ones !

Garfield ... speaking ....

... for nothing !

Lilian Thuram… (French international soccer player)

… “Noone will force me to return in team of France”
The international defender Lilian Thuram declared that noone “would force it to return” in team of France of football.

What are these players who condescend to play in Team of France only when they want to ?
To represent its country as a member of its national Team is an honor.
It is the role of the selector to determine if the presence of a joor is necessary, useful or not for the team and not for each player to decide according to his own personal desires!

Poor Suri ...

Monday 14 August 2006, 9h08
Beckham are invited to see Suri Cruise, but…
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes invited their friends met with a match of foot the year spent to come to see their small four month old daughter.
Victoria Beckham and David Beckham are magic of this invitation, but a little surprised of all the precautions which are required of them and which are specified to them in writing…
As an enthusiastic scientologist, the actor their request according to Daily Star not to have any photographic material at the time of their visit, not to touch Suri only once and not to speak “baby” with it, nor to chirp…

The life of this child must be very sad: no photographs, no human contacts, no chirp or others grimaces…

Albert II of Monaco does not think about marriage

Sunday 13 August 2006, 21h42
New York (AP) - In spite of media beating around his relation with the blonde South-African swimmer Charlene Whitstock, prince Albert of Monaco affirmed Sunday that it was not question of marriage.
“I in the near future do not have projects or moved away”, declared the 48 year old sovereign during the emission “Good Morning America” of ABC News.
“Each time one sees me with pretty young woman at my sides more once, everyone starts to pronounce the fateful word starting with “me, like you say. That becomes then very difficult to have a relation with somebody in a way semi-official or deprived”, it has déclaré.

Thus as that the word “marriage” is the fateful word according to Prince Albert…

The suspension of the hostilities came into effect to Lebanon…

“The war made nearly 1.200 died and 3.700 wounded in Lebanon, moved more than 900.000 people, the quarter of her population, and inflicted enormous destruction, evaluated to 6 billion dollars.”

The suspension of the hostilities came into effect, but Israel maintains its blockade.
Who, once more, to suffer more: the civil ones, women, children!
Will the State of Israel finance the rebuilding of the destruction or it will leave this country in this state of decay?

Where does the world go?

Snow in South Africa!
Never seen: falls of snow through South Africa. Flakes are also awaited in the French Alps today!
After the heat wave, welcome in winter!

Lebanon.... now ...

Last nine hundreds died and a million moved in Lebanon
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Israeli offensive started on July 12 in Lebanon made 900 died, 3.000 wounded and a million moved, is a quarter of the population, declared Thursday Lebanese the Prime Minister, Fouad Siniora.
The children of less than twelve years represent a third of the victims, underlines it in a video document carried out for the extraordinary meeting of the Organization of the Islamic conference.

Canaa...

Canaa is a small locality which is in Southern Lebanon not far from Tyr.
According to the Bible, it is there that the miracle of Cana took place, where Jesus changed water into wine, at the time of a ceremony of marriage. Another village of the same name disputes the fact to him of being the place present in the biblical account.
On April 18, 1996, during the operation Grapes of anger, it was the place of a drama, when Israeli aviation bombarded South-Lebanon. The population of Canaa, terrorized, put itself at the shelter in a camp under control of the FINUL. 106 people, as a majority of the women and the children perished in a camp of UNO. A cemetery and a monument commemorate this tragedy.
On July 30, 2006, during new confrontations between Israel and Hezbollah, the bombardment of a sheltering building of the refugees caused the death of at least 56 people, including 37 children.
Source: www.wikipedia.fr

At Canaa took place the miracle of the water transformed into wine. Unfortunately, no miracle saved, twice, of the women and the terrorized children of the bombardments of Israeli aviation.
Without pressure of the United States on Israel to obtain one to cease fire, only a miracle could save this area. Will it take place?

Lebanon: the conflict strikes the children hard…

BEIRUT (AP) - a third of the hundreds of civil killed in Lebanon since the beginning of the Israeli offensive is children, as at least the 34 who perished Sunday in Cana.
As for those which have escaped with the bombardments, much will remain a long time traumatized by what the adults should have saved to them: visions of died and destruction.
Beyond the many lives mown in their youth, the psychological cost undergone by the surviving children is him also considerable. “You cannot escape the noise from the bombs”, explains Nadine Maalouf, a psychologist for children who works with children Lebanese traumatized by the war.
Violence, the Lebanese one lived a long time with. They suffered from it during the 15 years from the civil war (1975-1990) and the Israeli invasion from 1982.
But the young people who knew this long period of conflict, become today parents, hoped to be able to protect their own children from these horrors.
Instead of that, they are found again impotent vis-a-vis the uninterrupted bombardments of aviation and the artillery Israelis which destroy whole districts in the south of Lebanon and certain suburbs of Beirut. “There was a plane which made a noise of pffff”, small Nour el-Hoda Cherri, 11 years tells, which still remembers at which point it trembled during the bombardment of its district of Haret Hreik, when its building was destroyed.
“My heart hurt me. It beat too quickly”, she says while pressing on its chest. “I said myself: “that is there, one will die, it is our destiny, God will punish me for all the things not although I made”.” And to quote the banal silly things of its age: to lie to his/her mother, to hide things with his/her parents, to push a young girl younger than her…
The assistant secretary general of UNO to the humane businesses Jan Egeland estimated Friday that a third from the 400 to 600 people killed in Lebanon was children.
The Israeli offensive also caused to make flee and move hundreds of thousands of Lebanese, which found refuge in schools, parks or underground car parks in surer areas of the country. It will be necessary years before all the houses are not rebuilt. Meanwhile, the children will have to thus live in places which will not be familiar for them.
According to the psychologist Nadine Maalouf, the effects of the traumatism will be felt even hard after the war, when these young people cannot still return on their premises and miss “reference mark”: friends, places of plays favourite, the store where they bought their dairy ice creams. The children whom it has met for one or two weeks present various symptoms, energy of the depression to hypertension while passing by the loss of reference mark. Many parents also note that their children became aggressive and disobeying because of the lack of framework and discipline.
The majority of the refugees come from areas mainly Shiites, in the south of the country, where is established the radical militia Shiite of Hezbollah, target of the Israeli attacks since it captured two soldiers on July 12 and car of the rockets against the Jewish State. And, another consequence of the offensive of Tsahal, many moved children of these zones, especially the boys, aspire to join the armed struggle against Israel.
“I want to be avenged for the Israelis”, clamp Ali Kalache, 14 years, originating in a district bombarded by the forces of the Hebrew State. At one time, the teenager wanted to become airline pilot. Even thing for Hussein Mqachar, 11 years, which always smelled a heart of chief and wants to join “resistance today”, name given to Hezbollah by its partisans.
As for Jamil Qbeis, 13 years, it dreamed to become surgeon. Now, it in the rows of the Party of God, “because Israel destroys us, kills to us and”

Which future for this area with all the sufferings moves us hopes from here a few years to fight which his/her children will have undergone?

Without the knowledge of their full liking ...

… Israelis bombard innocent civils, observers of UNO, humane convoys intended to come to assistance of civil in distress.

In the middle of all do these massacres, sometimes happen to them to reach terrorists?
They transform a country in ash, but for which results?

According to Pline, “the Phenician people has the badge honor to have invented the letters of the alphabet”. Do their descendants deserve all the atrocities that they have to undergo of then decades?

Such a phoenix, will this country birth again, once more, from its ashes?

Suri Cruise ...

… is an "happy baby", affirms a friend of her parents.

How a baby confined like were the poultries at the time of the crisis of the avian flu can be happy?

Lebanon, but what do they want?

What wishes Israel? End of Hezbollah, destruction of Lebanon, to invade Lebanon (and compensating for the loss of the occupied territories… while occupying some of others), to incite Syria to return to Lebanon, to cause a regional war….

What wishes the United States? To have finally a reason to attack Syria?

What wishes Lebanese and Palestinian people? Quite simply: to live in peace in a country independent and recognized of all.

Terrorism arises out of alliance between avid fanatic people of destruction and desperated people who don't have anything to lose and who are convinced that this way is the only one which allow their children to have a better future than their present.

The human nature is such as in each generation, there will be always some avid people to be able who will wish to dominate the world.
In my opinion, the best means “to behead” the terrorist networks is to make so that the life of all is more peaceful and pleasant. The actions of Tsahal in Lebanon or in the territories occupied in Palestine, do nothing but reinforce the breeding ground of unhappy people likely to reinforce the rows of the terrorist organizations.
The best means to restore peace in this area is the intervention of the blue helmets of UNO.

Why thus the United States and Israel are against this intervention?
Why don't they want all to implement so that peace returns? Would they prefer War to Peace?

Is TF1 in advance on the society????

Roselmack: French TV channel TF1 is “very advance on the French company”, according to Robert Namias

Thus according to Robert Namias, to dismiss an employee who has been very satisfying for 10 years and against who nothing can be reproached ... would be a projection?

I do not have anything against Harry Roselmack.

I do not have right step envies that one day my employer says to me “we don't have anything to reproach you… but you are fired because that will make well if we hire a person of color instead of you”.

I am to fight against discrimination, any form of discrimination, including positive discrimination!

The situation degenerates in the Middle East…

“Israeli Raid on the airport of Beirut; at least 22 civil Lebanese killed in the operations of the night”

“Israeli aviation strikes in Lebanon”

“Israel imposes an air and maritime blockade of Lebanon”

.....

After years of war, that made hardly a year that Lebanon succeeded in obtaining the withdrawal of Syria.

“For a few hours, there has been a bombardment of an airport of a completely sovereign country, friendly country of France (...) It is a disproportionate act of war (...) It is absolutely obvious that we ask that the unit and territorial integrity of Lebanon be preserved”, Philippe Douste-Blazy underlined.” France supports by consequence “the Lebanese request of a sasine of the Security Council of the United Nations within the shortest possible time”.

This small country will it have one day the possibility of again knowing peace and quietude?

Soccer World Cup 2006 - Results

• “Small Final”:
  Germany was binding rather easily vis-a-vis Portugal and licence on Oliver Kahn to take part with glory and dignity in its Mondial last… at home.
• Final:
  I clearly preferred the “Small final” which I looked at attentively, whereas I could not prevent me zapper during the final….
  In fact, I looked at another program and I channel-flicked some times to be informed of the result in the course of the final.
  Finally, Thierry Roland will not have to make it tower of the Place of the Harmony…. entirely naked!

Glop!

• The Team of France in final!
• Selection of Oliver Kahn for the “Small final”.

Not Glop!

• Many tedious matches during this world.
• The exit of Zidane on red paperboard.
• A final with the shootings with the goal!
• The mayor of Lyon was distinguished by transforming Lyon into single the large French city which did not place at the disposal of its inhabitants a giant screen solely for the final! (Officially for reasons of costs and safety. These two points however do not pose problems when it is a question of retransmitting the matches as League Champions of the OL… which forever succeeded in crossing the course of the 1/4 of finale!)

Science .... according to Garfield !

Soccer World cup 2006 - Quarterfinals (Results)

The second semi-final is from now known: Portugal/France.

Portugal managed to be binding only at the end of the meeting of shooting to the goals vis-a-vis a team of England made up of 10 joureurs only following expulsion of Wayne Rooney.

France is essential vis-a-vis Brazil.

I think that England deserved to gain, quite simply because Portugal proved to be unable to take the advantage during the match or even during the prolongations whereas they were in numerical superiority!

On the other hand, the victory of France over Brazil was deserved because France played better than Brazil.

This match, caused a tidal wave in journeaux French, who competes of praises! From a title to another, good place is made in Zinédine Zidane, the man of the match and with Thierry Henry, the author of the decisive goal marked on a frank blow of the first.

• “Magic!” (L'Equipe)
• “Too extremely!” (Paris Dimanche)
• “They did it!” (Le Journal du Dimanche)

In a leading article, the Team greets the collective control of the French players but reserve her stronger compliment in Zidane “returned to gain”, which “played the most accomplished match of its career out of World cup”.

“At the end of a heroic match and perfectly controlled vis-a-vis the Brazilian champions of the world, the Blue ones logically gained their place in semi-finals, where they will face Wednesday the team of Portugal”….
“Brilliant Zidane, decisive Henry and an iron defense make it possible to the French to dream with a new title”
(Paris Dimanche)

“Most remarkable in this victory, it is that the team-members of Zidane, radiant, will have trembled only in the last seconds, whereas Brazil had thrown all its offensive forces to believe in a return”.
(Le journal du Dimanche, Olivier Joly)

“They know too well from where they come. One day, soon, they will explain us besides how they made. By then, there remains to them nothing any more but one match to be gained vis-a-vis Portugal before famous July 9.”
(L'Equipe)

Where are the journalists who, since months, did not cease criticizing the team of France, the selector, players…. ?

Is it possible that the Team of France is able to play well only when it has been given a rough ride during several months?

Garfield at the vet ...

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Soccer World cup 2006 - Quarterfinals

Germany will be present in semi-final at the expense of Argentina.

It will confront Italy which defeated Ukraine by scoring 3 goals!

Garfield ...

Soccer World Cup 2006 - Eighth of finale - Summary

• Obvious Victory… not so obvious that that! The victory of Italy vis-a-vis in Australia seemed obvious it was however not it, since the goal liberator was marked only at the end of the match!
• Obvious Victory: Brazil beats Ghana by marking 3 goals…
• Victory… not obvious: France beats Spain by three goals to one!
  For some, Spain was favorite, for others the match was regarded as balanced… But very little saw France winner!
• Red card: the meeting Portugal/Netherlands with ..... 16 yellow cards and 4 red cards!
• Switzerland, a team… not like the others?
• Glop! Switzerland was eliminated in eighth from finale without to have taken the least goal at the time of the tournament.
• Not Glop! Switzerland also became the first team in the history of the World cup not to have registered only one goal of its shootings to the goal. (In 16 matches of World cup whose exit was decided by a meeting of shootings to the goal before this eighth, never a team had not seen all its penalties stopped by the goalkeeper or/and to pass beside the framework.)
Not to box goals can help, but if one does not mark… one does not win!

Champion and… modest!

With each one its surface and each one its record: like his rival Rafael Nadal, holder of the longest victorious series on beaten ground, Roger Federer changed to 42 the greatest number of matches gained after on grass, Tuesday with the tennis tournament of Wimbledon.
Contrary to Nadal, honoured at the time of a small ceremony at the beginning of Roland-Garros after having erased Guillermo Vilas of the shelves, Federer had excluded by advance any form from celebration from its exploit. “It is at the end of the tournaments that the trophy is received, not after the first turn”, it had prevented.
LONDON (AFP)

I was disappointed by the defeat Roger Federer finally of Roland Garros against Rafael Nadal. Roger Federer belongs to the best players of tennis, but he always remains very modest.

Soccer World cup 2006 - Quarterfinals

• Berlin - Friday June, 30th, 5 p.m.: Germany - Argentina.
• Hamburg - Friday June, 30th, 9 p.m.: Italy - Ukraine.
• Gelsenkirchen - Saturday July, 1st, 5 p.m.: England - Portugal.
• Frankfurt am Main - Saturday July, 1st, 9 p.m.: Brazil - France.

For the semi-finals, I forecast:

• Germany/Ukraine
• England/Brazil

But I hope we will have England/France: the idea of an England match/France and the fact that France would play Allianz Arena of Munich would not be without me to displease. But I think that Brazil has more chances than France to win!

Soccer World Cup 2006 - Eighth of finale - Results

Switzerland - Ukraine: at the end of a match without goals, the Ukraine is essential on Switzerland at the time of the meeting shootings to the goal!

Brazil - Ghana: Brazil is victorious without surprised (by three goals to zero)

Spain - France: Spain, contrary to very many forecasts, inclines itself vis-a-vis in France… by scoring one goal and by taking 3 ones!

Seven deadly sins - avarice or cupidity

Avarice or cupidity: desire to have or preserve more richnesses than necessary. Its demon is Mammon.

Suri Cruise does not allure enough the media: Tom and Katie are terribly disappointed by it.

Did you already see the face of small Suri Cruise?
Not, obviously, because no picture of the baby has been baught by the tabloids.
That's true we've almost forgotten her, however her parents, them, decided not to draw a feature on this history.
According to the journalist Roger Friedman, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes proposed a stereotype of their baby to the agence Wire image, to negotiate the sale near the publications of it, but the biddings are not assembled rather high.
Eh yes, three million dollars is a rising insufficient good with the eyes of the couple, which intended to give a part of the profits obtained to the church of scientology.
Suri thus makes pale figure vis-a-vis Shiloh, who collected 4 millions Euros, but her parents did not say their last word… To be followed!
public.fr

All that in more with the profit of a sect, whereas this money could serve so much well as the humane causes…

Soccer World Cup 2006 - Eighth of finale - Results

It is without real surprised that Italy gains its ticket for the quarterfinals by beating Australia.

Soccer World Cup 2006 - Eighth of finale - Results

Portugal joined the quarters of finalists at the expense of Netherlands.

==> Saturday July, 1st, 5 p.m.: Quarterfinal England/Portugal.

Soccer World Cup 2006 - Eighth of finale - Results

Thanks to David Beckham who scored the only goal of the meeting, England joined the quarters of finalists at the expense of Ecuador.

Soccer World Cup 2006 - Eighth of finale - Results

Mexico quickly took lead on Argentina, but was ... quickly caught up with.

At the end of the extra time, necessary to decide between these two countries of the American continent, Argentina left victorious the combat.

==> Friday June, 30th, 5 p.m.: Quarterfinal Argentinian / Germany.

Seven deadly sins - Gluttony

Gluttony: it is not so much greediness with the modern direction which is blamworthy that the gloutonnery, excess and the waste. Its demon is Belzébuth.

Sunday June 25, 2006, 2h15
A woman of 45 kilos gains a contest of the big eater in Virginia LYNCHBURG, Virginia
(AP) - Sonya Thomas weighs only 45 kilos, but that which is called “the black widow” gained the contest of the big eater at the time of the 16th annual gathering of the owners of Harley Davidson of the State of Virginia, by ingurgitant a total of 60 breads to milk with ham.

That which gained its nickname after having beaten on several occasions corpulent male adversaries demolished eleven competitors belonging to the international Federation of the competitions of eaters and the owners of Harley Davidson come from all the state of Virginia.

Its adversary finally ate only 42 breads with milk with ham, one of the favorite mets in the South of the United States.

At five minutes of the end, whereas they had the full mouth, the two rivals continued to soak their breads with milk in jugs and glasses of water in order to swallow them more quickly. “Sometimes, water returns to me a little nauseous”, declared Sonya Thomas, which used in the very last minutes of the competition a technique which, according to it, assistance to reduce food: to jump to bell-foot.
AP

Beyond the capital sin of gluttony, I think all this displaying and wasting of foos is scandalous whereas so many people are dying of hunger, including in the United States!

Soccer World Cup 2006 - Eighth of finale - Results

It is with a certain facility that Germany came to end from Sweden.

As of the first fifteen minutes, the score posted at the stage Allianz Arena of Munich was: 2-0 for Germany.

The exclusion of a Swedish player could only confirm this tendency.

Only the performances of the Swedish goalkeeper prevented German from allourdir the bill!

Soccer World Cup 2006 - Eighth of finale

Saturday June, 24th, 5 p.m.: 1st group A (Germany)/2nd Group B (Sweden) in Munich
Saturday June, 24th, 9 p.m.: 1st group C (Argentina)/2nd Group D (Mexico) in Leipzig
Sunday June, 25th, 5 p.m.: 1st Group B (England)/2nd Group A (Ecuador) in Stuttgart
Sunday June, 25th, 9 p.m.: 1st Group D (Portugal)/2nd Group C (the Netherlands) in Nuremberg
Monday June, 26th, 5 p.m.: 1st Group E (Italy)/2nd Group F (Australia) in Kaiserslautern
Monday June, 26th, 9 p.m.: 1st Group G (Swiss)/2nd Group H (Ukraine) in Cologne
Tuesday June, 27th, 5 p.m.: 1st Group F (Brazil)/2nd Group E (Ghana) in Dortmund
Tuesday June, 27th, 9 p.m.: 1st Group H (Spain)/2nd Group G (France) in Hanover

First day of the summer…

The first day of the summer is given on a quite precise date according to the positioning of the sun compared to the ground.
The summer solstice is alternate between the Northern hemisphere and the Southern hemisphere. I.e. for the Northern hemisphere (for example Canada, France, China), the summer solstice takes place on June 21, whereas this same date corresponds to the winter solstice for the southern hemisphere (for example Australia, Brazil and Madagascar)!

The summer corresponds to the period of the year when the sunning of the day is longest and the positioning of the sun compared to the ground highest. The summer is the ideal occasion to take its holidays in order to benefit from the sun. Then, if it is not done yet, I highly advise you to make your reservations (hotels, planes, stays…) for your summer holidays as of now not having nasty surprises.

More than 20.000 people were joined together on the miniscule site of Stonehege (in the south of England) in order to celebrate the summer solstice.

70 years ago…

… the first paid-leaves in France appeared!

The paid-leaves are a major social innovation whose certain first steps had appeared in collective agreements in Germany at the beginning of the XXème century. This social conquest related to the advent of the Popular Front in France was constantly fought by employers. At the beginning of the 21st century it is still relatively not very widespread in the world.

Soccer World Cup 2006 - First Round - Results (Continuation)

Date	Place	Referee	Score	Group
dim 11 jui 15:00	Leipzig	Dr. Markus Merk	Serbia and Montengro 0 The Netherlands 1	C
dim 11 jui 18:00	Nuremberg	Roberto Rosetti	Mexico 3 Iran 1	D
dim 11 jui 21:00	Cologne	Jorge Larrionda	Angola 0 Portugal 1	D
lun 12 jui 15:00	Kaiserslautern	Esam Abd El Fatah	Australia 3 Japan 1	F
lun 12 jui 18:00	Gelsenkirchen	Carlos Amarilla	United States of America 0 Czech Republic 3	E
lun 12 jui 21:00	Hanovre	Carlos Simon	Italy 2 Ghana 0	E

Soccer World Cup 2006 - First Round - Results

Date	Place	Referee	Score	Group
Fri 9 jui 18:00	Munich	Horacio Elizondo	Germany 4 Costa Rica 2	A
Fri 9 jui 21:00	Gelsenkirchen	Toru Kamikawa	Poland 0 Equator 2	A
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Poor Garfield !

TV: They don't know… what invent any more!

Maeva, to play without being mistaken…
Maeva, 21 years old, model and former air-hostess, takes part in “To play is not to mislead”, a strategic play of TV-reality diffused on the musical chain of the TNT.
Filmed 24 hours a day, Maeva and four young men whose only one single person live together locked up in a house on two floors during four days and three nights.
The principle: Maeva must guess which of the four boys (Antoine, Benjamin, Anthony or Arnaud) does not have anybody in his life. The boys must each one persuade it which they are the single person. And to spice the whole, the girl friends of faulty observe them since a room of visionnage and their give advised councils.
If Maeva avoids the traps machiavelic and discovers the true single person, it shares 10.000 euros with him. If it designates a liar, it is the couple which empoche money.
“I was convinced by the side manipulator of this play of TV-reality a little more relevant than usually” Maeva affirms. “In the life, I am not a seductresses, I have much evil to go towards the boys” however acknowledges Miss Mayotte 2004 who must use of all the stratagems to find her ally. The televiewers, them, know as a preliminary that Antoine, charming 25 year old young man, is the single person who must convince Maeva. “It is a good experiment for me, that enabled me to discover many things of my personality” insists the young woman who currently carries out tests to animate soon a program of a chain of the satellite. The last of the four episodes “To play is not to mislead” will be diffused on Saturday June 10, before the best-of of June 17. For those which very missed, not of panic: the episodes will pass by again from June 24.
Europe1

I do not know what is most pathetic: these new shows or the fact that it have a public there to look at this kind of things!

France - Adecco and l'Oréal released for discrimination at the time of recruitment

“The business was started by a complaint of S.O.S-Racism. In the support, association had produced a fax of July 12, 2000 sent by Districom, a subsidiary company of Adecco charged to assemble promotional operations, at agencies of interim.
The details there the profile of the hostesses sought by Oréal to make the demonstration of its new products of the line Fructis Style: 18-22 years, cuts clothing 38 to 42 (French Size), BBR.
This last code would mean in fact "Bleu, Blanc Rouge" (blue, white, red) to exclude the candidates from color.
According a survey, l'Oréal established that very few girls of African, Maghrebian or Asian origin had finally been retained for the countryside launching. “
AP

First of all nothing proves that BBR means “bleu (blue), blanc (white), rouge(red)”.

Then, if this code aimed at the exclusion of the candidates of color, there would not have been no girls of African, Maghrebian or Asian origin reserves for the launching campaign.

It should not, also, not be forgotten that the candidates were also to meet the following conditions: 18-22 years, cuts clothing 38 to 42 (French size), which, without being with racist connotation, should be considered as discriminatory.

Why a 25 years old woman should not be able to make a good demonstration of hair care?
In the same way, why excluding men?
A young man would thus not be capable of a good demonstration of hair care?

Happy birthday ... Big-Ben !

Big Ben is the nickname of the large bell (it is 4.25 meters long!) located in the Tower of the Clock (Clock Tower) of the Palate of Westminster, the seat of the British Parliament.

This bell sounds every hour. By extension, the clock and the whole tower are named Big Ben.

The clock is made up of four dials 7 meters in diameter and a bell weighing 13,5 tons installed in 1858, June, 1st.

It is called Big Ben to remember it Benjamin Hall, first police chief of public works, who was of strong stoutness.

Each year, the clock is regulated by posing a part of 1 penny on the pendulum if it takes lead; one removes from it if it delays.

The exact hour is given by the first blow. The sound of Big Ben has a noise which carries to a little more 6km.

Day without tobacco…

Created in 1988, this day is organized to sensitize people with the effects of the nicotinism and to reduce the dependence to the tobacco of the smokers.

French on three states to smoke, even from time to time.
The tobacco remains the first avoidable cause of mortality in France, with 60.000 deaths each year.
More than 45.000 Canadian die each year of diseases related to the nicotinism.
The cigarette is responsible for approximately 30% of the cases of cancer and more than 80% of the cases of lung cancer in Canada.

Not to smoke this day, it is a good thing! The world day of the tobacco is especially a beautiful occasion definitively to stop smoking!

The Mother's Day ...

In France, the Mother's Day is celebrated last Sunday of May except if this day is Sunday of Pentecost, in this rather exceptional case, the Mother's Day is deferred to first Sunday of June.

The Mother's Day is a habit of American origin before being copied in considerable countries in the world.
In 1872, the poet Julia Ward Howe launched the idea of a “Mother' S Day Proclamation” intended to honour the mothers and peace.
From 1907, the celebration of second Sunday of May in the honor of the moms extended very quickly in all the American states.
This fest is officialized into 1914 in the United States.
In 1918, In France, the Day of the Mothers is created.
In 1920, it becomes the national Day of the mothers of big families.
In 1926 a decree fixed officially the feastday of the Mothers at last Sunday of May but it is a law of May 24, 1950 which institutionalizes this day definitively: Mother's Day.

Nowadays, the Mother's Day is before a a whole intimate and family festival. It is the occasion for all to express the love which they carry to their mom. In France, it is of tradition that the small ones and large children offer gifts, flowers, charts… with their mom.

Football (Soccer) World cup 2006 ..

A little stress, an ego (oversize?) put at evil by a position of 2nd guard and “small” Grégory Coupet cracks and leaves, one moment, the team of France!

In Tignes (French Alps), he could have proven that it deserved more than Fabien Barthez the role of the first guard.
Instead of that, he only succeeded in proving that he does not resist the pressure and that he makes pass his ego and his small person before the interests of the team.

With such a behavior, he would deserve to be to relegate to the place of 3rd guard!

The Ascension ...

In Christianity the Ascension is one of the great feasts in the liturgical calendar and refers to the Ascension of Jesus into Heaven forty days after his resurrection from the dead.

For all French, the Ascension is a public holiday, but it is before all a Christian event.
The Ascension corresponds to the day of the rise in Jesus to the sky. (Ascension comes from Latin ascendere, to rise.)
The Ascension is celebrated 40 days after Easter (or more simply Thursday of 6th of Easter).
Indeed, the Ascension is always celebrated Thursday, for the greatest happiness of small and large which has an occasion of “bridge” before the estival holidays! Forty days is a figure in charge of direction in the Bible, it indicates a time of test or revelation.
Forty days is also a figure very present in many brandy receipts and various alcohols (for example: 40 vervain bits + 40 pieces of sugar, to leave during 40 days in a brandy bottle….)

Among Christians, this period of the Ascension corresponds to the “rogations” (the Latin verb “rogare” means “to require”). It was about one period of prayer and interrogation of the stars in order to know what the sky reserved to the men. It was also the occasion to request to avoid the calamities.

I love ..... Garfield !

Happy Birthday, Sir Arthur ...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• English writer
• Born in Edinburgh on May 22, 1859
• Deceased in Crowborough on July 7, 1930

Born from a Scottish father and an Irish mother, Conan Doyle follows its studies to the Public School de Stonyhurst, considered for its catholic teaching.
Doyle becomes agnostic and turns to studies of medicine.
Once its acquired diploma, it is useful in the army and travels to South Africa before settling in Portsmouth.
He thinks about a literary career, particularly attracted by the historical novel.
Nevertheless, in fact the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, at the origin a news of order published in 1887 will ensure its literary success the detriment of works that Doyle judged more serious (“Waterloo”).
Sherlock Holmes will become so popular that considerable victoriens will believe in its real existence.
Doyle will thus try to kill its creature, but will be forced to make it reappear opposite dissatisfaction.
It will be also illustrated in science fiction (“The Lost World”) and will write at the end of its life of the works on the existence of the fairies and the spiritism, of which he had become the burning defender.

• Honors…
  Conan doyle was anobli in 1902 in reward of services rendered to the nation, having made propaganda to defend the role of Great Britain in the war of Boers in South Africa (1899-1902).
• Spiritism…
  Doyle tried to convince the magician Harry Houdini of the founded good of spiritism. Together, they took part in a meeting and “came into contact” with the mother of Houdini. This one was described like carrying a crucifix by the spiritistic one. Houdini offusqua because his/her mother was Jewish. It with what Doyle him rétorqua which it had converted in beyond!

All that recalls me that that would be well if I took a few moments to again plunge me in some of the intrigues solved with brilliance by Sherlock Holmes (with or without the assistance of faithful Dr. Watson).

Why I will not see Da Vinci at the cinema….

It is not at all a boycotting for religious reasons!

Negative points

• Dixit Tom Hanks: “… it should be known that the history that we tell is quite simply filled of funny of a cock and bull things which like the hunters of treasure…” !
  Personally I like films of hunters of treasures, but filled of subtle, sought, intelligent things and not of funny of a cock and bull things!
• “Langdon turned to see has yuoung woman approaching. She was moving down the long corridor toward them with, fluid strides… [...] she was gravitational and looked to Be butt thirty. [...], this woman was healthy with year unembellished beauty and genuineness that radiated has striking personal confidence”. This description of the cryptographe Sophie Neveu corresponds to everybody ..... EXCEPT Audrey Tautou!
• Tom Hanks: I also do not find it convincing in the key role of Professor Langdon.

Positive points: I think that Jean Réno in Bézu Fache can be in his element. The good surprise (for the moment confirmed that by the band announces): Paul Bettany in malicious Silas! He that I had rather seen in romantic roles can finally make very good… malicious! I do not know if the film will make a paperboard or a bide, but I think that Ron Howard (however generally very talented) of completion flunked his casting and perhaps presents this evening at the Canne whole the largest turkey of his career!

From “Da Vinci Codes” to “catho.be”

Monday May 15, 2006, 13:39
A few days out of the film “Da Vinci Codes”, drawn from the best-seller of Dan Brown, the bishops of Belgium point out that it is about a fiction and denounce in an official statement the lack of religious culture of the current company. They hope in addition that this film “will give to much the desire more for informing itself on the history of Christianity”. “The Code Da Vinci is a fiction and must be regarded as such”, declare the bishops of Belgium Monday. “However, the fictions influence mentalities. It is thus useful to recall that this account does not rest on any serious historical base”, add they. “It is not the film which it is necessary to fear. The challenge is the lack of religious culture of so much of our contemporaries, including the catholics”, continue the bishops, while inviting people to get information. To this end, the site of the catholic church of Belgium proposes a file “Code Da Vinci” beginning again inter alia a list of works or emissions making it possible to inform itself on the subject. The spokesman of the bishops, Eric De Beukelaer also proposes a reflexion around the novel, taking again various questions resulting from this one about a possible sentimental relation between Jesus and Marie Madeleine from which a descent would result, or about the priory of Sion. “A my opinion, the best-seller of Dan Brown does not arrive at ankle of Harry Potter, but it would be dishonest person to claim that I would have been bored” by reading it, declares Eric De Beukelaer. “This thriller esoteric is distracting, in spite of its epilogue drawn by the hair. The book has especially a great merit: that to reveal at which point the religious formation of considerable adult catholics is defective”, explains it. If it does not disadvise the reading of the novel, nor even the film, it advises with those which “would be disturbed by its reading” of reading a book on the formation of the Gospels or the history of Christianity. Lastly, a conference-debate around the topic “Da Vinci Codes: question for Christianity, media surprise?” will be organized on May 18 by the Faculty of theology of the UCL and the service of press of the episcopal Conference, in the presence of Mgr Andre-Mutien Léonard, bishop of Namur. (According to Belga)

© Rossel and Co SA, the Evening on line, Brussels, 2006

A sentence of the Bishops of Belgium held my attention: “It is thus useful to recall that this account does not rest on any serious historical base”.

Indeed, this account of rests, perhaps, on any serious historical base, but which are the serious historical bases on which the New Will rests? No serious historical base makes it possible to say that Jesus Christ would have been married in Marie Madeleine.

But no serious historical base makes it possible to affirm that Jesus Christ existed and… has ressucited among Deaths !

The code Da Vinci - Investigation into the true mysteries of a best-seller

According to the authors of this documentary, the American novelist Dan Brown would have taken as a starting point the the business known as of Rennes-the-Castle to write Da Vinci Code.
Inquire into the lower parts of a best-seller. Jean-Patrick Pourtal, impassioned by the mysteries of Rennes-the-Castle which it has studied for twenty years, points, evidence with the support, the many correspondences - names, the events - between the business which, at the end of XIXe, returned celebrates Rennes-the-Castle, small village of the Aude, and Da Vinci Code.
He convenes historians, writers, specialists in the religions, journalists, the mayor of the village and even the secretary general of the priory of Sion.
Each one of them revives these strange events.
As in the book, the business starts with an assassination. Antoine Gélis, priest of the village of Coustaussa, is found lying in his blood on November 1, 1897. In spite of the many indices, the crime remains mysterious. The victim was close to Berenger Saunière, priest of Rennes-the-Castle, the close village. The two friends seemed to share the secrecy discovered by the Saunière abbot during work which it undertook in his church.
Nobody will never know what it put at the day, if these are not documents that it translated in Paris.
The film recalls the discovery of the treasure, the travel of the priest in Paris, his visit of the Saint-Sulpice church then of Louvre, where it was delayed on the Shepherds of Arcadie, a Chick table which curiously points out a tomb located beside the village. With each stage, it raises the enigmas which the priest left behind him. On his return, the abbot is taken of a builder fever.
Which treasure could well have found to undertake of so great work? One evokes that which the Visigoths would have reported of Jerusalem. It restores the church, which it devotes to Marie Madeleine and in which it seems to have wanted to leave the many ones and strange information.
For some, Marie Madeleine would have remained in the south of France, taking along with it the body of Jesus.
One returns from there here to the thesis developed by Dan Brown in his book, on the relation which would have linked Jesus with the latter. But the mystery remains and the investigation continues…
Valentine Ponsy - French Television France 5

The secretary general of the priory of Sion affirms that ritual priory of Sion such as they are described in the book have nothing to do with reality.
On the other hand, it does nothing but maintain the mysteries and rumours while answering, after a hesitation, “I cannot answer you” when the journalist asks to him whether the priory of Sion hides and transmits secrecies. If that is not the case, why not simply not answer “not”.

In the absence of raising the veil on the mystery, this report makes it possible to discover (or rediscover) a superb area full with mysteries (and not inevitably in connection with Da Vinci Code!)

Medallions of Jeanne d' Arc to protect the American soldiers in Iraq…

WASHINGTON (AFP) - an American artist undertook to manufacture and dispatch hundreds of medallions of Jeanne d' Arc in Iraq, in the hope that the small French shepherdess protects the American soldiers. “Our soldiers fall under the bombs, and they do not have an armour. I wondered what I could send to them to protect them, and Jeanne asserted herself”, explains Pat Benincasa, 55 years.
“Jeanne d' Arc crosses the borders, the nations, the History, and it speaks with each one among us. She put her faith as a God to achieve the impossible one”, continues this specialist in the sacred art, installed in Minnesota (northern). Even if the mission of the small shepherdess were to drive out an occupying army its country, it remains “one beating, a soldate” in which them American troops in Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere can have confidence, ensures the artist.
A chaplain of the American army in Iraq already placed order of 500 medals to him, and since it launched its project at the beginning of April, it regularly receives requests of close relations of soldiers, explains she. The medal, worked out by the artist starting from a giant table on which it has worked for two years, represents Jeanne in armour, on a horse with the gallop.
Currently in the course of reproduction, the first specimens will be dispatched in the next weeks.
Pat Benincasa launched the project on its economies, and invites on its Internet site the goodwills to extend it by financing the manufacture and the sending of batches of 50 (240 dollars) or 100 medals (456 dollars).

Don't they thus know what arrived at Jeanne d' Arc, said the Maid of Orleans? These poor soldiers must make to a war, not justified, far from on their premises, their families, their friends… they do not deserve to undergo the same fate as Jeanne d' Arc, namely to perish to burn sharp on a bucher!
Moreover, Jeanne d' Arc tried to release her country against the invader (some… Britanniques!), whereas the American army would rather have the role of invader in Iraq….

Da Vinci Code Vs Christian tolerance…

Indian Christians call with a hunger strike against “Da vinci code”

BOMBAY (AFP) - A catholic Indian group invited the Christians to start a hunger strike until death to protest against the diffusion in India of the film “Da vinci code” which must invade the screens of the world on May 19.
Catholic Secular Forum brought together Wednesday in a convent of Bombay (western) some 200 people, of which several tens of nuns, opposed to the exit of film.
Joseph Dias, chief of this religious group which had hoped to join together thousands of people, indicated that its organization had given up burning effigies of the author of “Da vinci code” Dan Brown because it had not been able to prevent the government of his intentions and feared sanctions.
But Mr. Dias affirmed that some 50 people would start Friday with him a hunger strike in the center of the financial capital of India unless the authorities do not decide to prohibit the exit of film. “We badly do not have a hope which the film is prohibited. If it is not it, they are likely to have to deal with dead few people what will have a negative impact on the government with the capacity” carried out by the Party of the Congress (center-left), it declared.
Sony Pictures had confirmed Tuesday that the launching of film in India was always envisaged on May 19.
In the Vatican, the secretary of the Congregation for the doctrines of faith Mgr Angelo Amato evoked a boycott of film drawn from the book with success of Dan Brown, which it described as “novel perversely agains Christian”.
Adapted best-seller eponym, “Da Vinci Code” has as an argument the idea that Jesus and Marie-madeleine had a descent, that the catholic Church has hidden that at all costs for two thousand years and that it is used for the XXe century of Opus Dei like sicaire.
The film is carried out by Ron Howard, with the American actor Tom Hanks and the Frenchwoman Audrey Tautou.
Approximately 2% of the strong Indian population d'1,1 billion inhabitants are Christian, the majority of the Indians being Hindu.

To strike of the end, to boycott, threaten to kill out of the people…. it would perhaps not have to be forgotten that the starting point of all these couroux is ..... only…. a film of fiction!

Victory on the Nazi Germany

The public holiday of May 8 corresponds to the victory over the Nazi Germany during the second world war of September 3, 1939 to May 8, 1945.
The German capitulation was signed in Berlin by the Keitel marshal in the night of May 8, 1945 and put an end to a war which lasted more than 5 years.
The general of Lattre de Tassigny represented the French Republic there, at the sides of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union.

The law of March 20, 1953 founded on May 8 like a bank holiday and a public holiday: the general of Gaulle removed the public holiday in 1961, the commemoration of the victory being fixed at second Sunday of May.
President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing decided on May 8, 1975 to remove any commemoration to celebrate only one date on November 11 commérant all the wars.
This one was restored by President François Mitterrand, as well as the public holiday, by the law of October 2, 1981.

Official ceremonies of commemoration of victory 1945 are organized in many communes. During this reception, it is envisaged to honour the people deserving with the commune.
It is especially for much French one day of relaxation in family and/or between friends.

"Never three without three" ... for parents of the New Jersey

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (AP) - This couple of the New Jersey could modify the proverb to make "never three without three of them".
Rich and Sharon Fontana have been indeed for Monday the happy parents of charming triplets who come to be added to their other triplets bornt 2 years ago.
"That will not be easy at the beginning ", declared the happy dad Rich Fontana, from the Teaching hospital of St Peter, in the New Jersey. "Oldest will occupy us all the day whereas the babies will make it all the night".
Despite everything, Rich and Sharon Fontana accomodated with happiness Monday the birth of Alyssa, Evan and Eric, who will join Danielle, David and Dylan, the first triplets borned 2 years ago.
In other words, they will find himself with six small children carrying layers. What implies, for the amateurs of statistics, 40 changes of layers and three dozen feeding-bottles by jour.
Ironically , 12 years ago, the doctor of Sharon had said to her that she could never have child.

Congratulations ... and good luck!

The Day of the press ...

The celebration of this Day rises from the adoption by the general Conference of UNESCO (1991) of a resolution on promotion of the freedom of the press in the world, which recognized that a free, pluralist and independent press was an essential component of any democratic company.
Consequently, December 20, 1993, the General meeting proclaimed on May 3 world Journée of the freedom of the press.
The Committee of information devotes one half-day of meeting, thus paying homage to the journalists of the whole world who are likely their life by professional choice in the spirit to promote freedom of movement of information.

Labour Day everywhere..... except in North America !

In 1884, during a congress of the American Federation of Labor, the principal working trade unions of the United States had given two years to impose to the owners the limitation of the working day to eight hours.

In May 1st, 1886, the workers who did not obtain the eight hours day in their companies struck.
This date commemorates this fight of the workers. The memory of this day brings Europeans, a few years later, to institute the Labour Day later.

The Labour Day is celebrated on May 1 in Europe and at the international level except in North America (1st Monday of September).

At the beginning of the XXème century, the workers ravelled in the streets in working clotheses.
Nowadays, it is always a day of protest, the occasion for the workers to ravel in the large towns of France to the call of the trade-union organizations and certain political parties.
For others, it is the occasion to spend the day in family.
The French legislation does not prohibit work the public holidays except for May 1 which must be been unemployed.