Antipodes

Click here to see a few samples of the journal of Elise Lucet . She's an excellent journalist, whose highly successful achievements hav...

I’m old-fashioned… which isn’t surprising in the case of a fellow born in 1940. I belong to a generation of old-timers who were never tempte...

A few years ago, when I needed a special self-portrait for a blog post (a photo that would show me wearing a newly-purchased Russian black-f...

In one of his recent TV documentaries, François Skyvington found himself in the middle of a wonderful world of colors in the Midi-Pyrénées...

My son François Skyvington told me on the phone this morning that his moped road movies are currently being aired on the Arte channel at a...

Once upon a time, in France, we had an extraordinary national anthem—stirring, but not particularly nice—that evoked blood and gore, the smo...

Yesterday evening on TV, like millions of viewers, I could have watched the election of Miss France. Instead, I was attracted by an Australi...

In 1928, when this incredibly futuristic cover of the US magazine Radio News was published, my father was ten years old. Two decades later,...

I watch French TV regularly, since I often find it entertaining and enriching, indeed excellent. For me, the ultimate luxury is the possibil...

In the state-owned French TV organization, the staff in charge of handling guest-star appearances do a marvelous job. A few days ago, on the...

I've often expressed the opinion that French TV can, at times, be incredibly good: a powerful medium in the hands of exceptionally talen...

Let me explain, for readers who might not know, that a mobylette is a hugely popular moped (lightweight motorbike) made by the French manu...

The French-language blog named Jour après jour [ Day after day ], written by a regular Parisian reader of Antipodes known as cm , informe...

Ever since first arriving in France, 45 years ago, I've appreciated the overall excellence of French publicity. A highly visible symbol ...

Areva is a large French state-owned company in the field of nuclear energy. They handle the three fundamental aspects of this domain: the p...

The Italian truck manufacturer Iveco (which also happens to be the world's leading manufacturer of diesel motors of all kinds) has scor...

The dictionary informs me that one of my favorite French adjectives, ringard , came into existence at about the same time I first arrived in...

To my way of thinking (which is biased, of course), Ségolène Royal was a far better performer than Nicolas Sarkozy in last night's gra...

Millions of TV viewers were no doubt glued to their screens today, watching the latest French wonder train setting a new world speed record ...