I always try and keep people outside of France appraised as to what the ‘natives’ are doing and thinking, and what better way to do that than to re-produce some surveys carried out a few weeks ago. One is what the French hated and the other is the results of who made it big in the news in France in 2009.
What the French Hated:
1) Traders' bonuses (The word covers bankers and traders)
2) Jean Sarkozy's candidacy for EPAD (management agency for La Defense business district). This is Sarkozy’s son – see this blog….http://tomsfrenchblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/sarkozy-mark-ii.html
3) "Boss-napping" -- disgruntled workers' effectively kidnapping and keeping managers prisoners in their own offices. Strange – I would have thought the French public would have loved this.
4) The attacks against Frédéric Miterrand, the popular Culture Minister who caused a stir by defending Roman Polanski and for confessing to homosexual sex tourism in Thailand.
5) The arrest of Roman Polanski, the popular film director who was arrested in Switzerland to face 32-year-old sex charges in Los Angeles -- so France backs Polanski after all.
1) Jean Sarkozy – Sarkozy’s son – see above.
2) Toni Musulin, the armoured van driver who made off with £10.3m without hurting anyone. See article if you don’t know this story. http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/55825,news-comment,news-politics,france-has-a-new-anti-hero-bank-robber-tony-musulin
3) Susan Boyle (Scottish singer) – I suppose she’s better than the French dinosaur Johnny Hallyday!
4) Octomom, the American mother who gave birth to eight babies.
5) Yann Barthès (Presenter of irreverent Petit Journal on Canal Plus TV) ????
And I suppose if they'd carried out a survey of what the French Loved it would have been as per the following:
1) Carla Bruni
2) Food
3) 35 hour week
4) Carla Bruni
5) Wine
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