Anyone in France needing exotic ingredients and spicy sauces, I can recommend Sweet Pepper in Bordeaux. Shipped quickly. No fuss, no nonsense.

French Expression of the Day: Poser un lapin Do you have unreliable friends? Or perhaps you are the flaky one? Either way, you might need this. Spoiler: It has nothing to do with cute furry animals.

More about 'posing a rabbit' in French

No surprise, Elon Musk has 'pose un lapin' to French prosecutors investigating political interference, sexual deepfakes and Holocaust denial on his X platform
(It means he didn't show up, they're not adding rabbit abuse to the list of allegations about him. Yet.)

Facebook comment on The Local France from a user calling themselves Cork Antiques: "You know this page definitely gets some funding from dodgy NGOs with the amount of hard left garbage they spout"

If anyone knows the names of these NGOs who apparently give out money for "hard left garbage" - aka reporting on Marine Le Pen's criminal conviction and presidential hopes - please send them my way. Maybe we could buy a new mousetrap for the office

Please report back on this crucial issue!

I've seen adverts for these, but haven't tried them. Are they good? Peak Breton, anyway!

An advert for Brets salted caramel flavour crisps

Have Brets finally gone too far?

A Very Brief History of the Women’s Six Nations Founded in 1996 as the Women’s Home Nations Championship, the tournament has grown significantly over the last thirty years. This is the tale of the seven nations that have made up the Six Na…

It's been 30 years since the first Women's Home Nations. Back in '96, J&J Motors of Llanelli donated £20,000 to the development of women's rugby in Wales. Maybe it is time to repay the West and bring a Women's Six Nations game to the Parc?
therugbyhistoryproject.com/2026/04/19/a...

Ha, same! This is probably fine and not a problem though, right?

Macron calls for monthly 'screen-free day' for young people French president Emmanuel Macron has called for a monthly 'day of disconnection' for young people as he pushes ahead with plans to ban social media for under-15s.

Don't stop at kids, make adults do this too . . .

JUSTE UNE ILLUSION Bande Annonce (2026) Louis Garrel, Camille Cottin, Nouvelle YouTube video by FilmsActu

Another banger from the 🇫🇷 writer-director duo Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano. Fab 80s soundtrack. If nothing else, watch for the François Mitterand-Helmut Kohl joke

Paris’s new mayor wants to create a 'périphérique marathon' At the start of Sunday’s Paris Marathon, new mayor Emmanuel Grégoire expressed a wish to create a long-distance running race around the French capital’s usually traffic-clogged ring road.

This is linked to the mayor's long-term plan to turn the Paris ringroad into an urban park . . . which does sound kind of nuts. But then swimming in the Seine and pedestrianising the riverbanks also sounded nuts once upon a time. Keep dreaming big, Paris!

Talking France: France to lose 1.7million children and far right photoshoot causes stir In this week's show we'll find out why the rules around France's sacred May 1st public holiday have sparked a political row to the point where some lawmakers have accused the government ministers o...

Here's the new podcast
🇫🇷 Fury over plans to water down the 'sacred' May 1st holiday
🇫🇷 What that 'fairytale romance' photoshoot of far right leader Jordan Bardella really means
🇫🇷 France's falling school roll
(and the story of the drunk man who brought Marseille airport to a standstill)

Page 1 of the memo. Sorry it's too long to copy the whole thing, but find a summary in the article linked in the original post

Memo page 2

Memo page 3

Final page of the memo, with a handwritten 'thanks in advance' and signature from the Interior Minister Laurent Nunez

Full memo

Latest: What French Interior Minister's plan means for your carte de séjour application France's Interior Minister has unveiled the details of his plan to cut waiting times for carte de séjour renewals - from fingerprints to address changes and reduced document checks, here's what it mea...

Huge news for foreigners in France - the Interior Minister tells préfectures that they can only ask you for documents which are actually *on the list of documents that they sent you*.
He put that bit of the memo in bold - this man used to work in préfectures, and it shows

French phrase of the day: Ivre, il This odd little inversion is a French newspaper classic and a common subject for jokes.

More on 'ivre, il' - kinda the French version of Florida Man

Long delays at French airport after drunk man accidentally opened barrier The accidental opening of a barrier separating domestic and international passengers at a French airport caused chaos and hours of delays at one French airport, local media reported.

The French version of this uses the classic headline format 'Ivre, il' - Ivre, il ouvre les frontières par erreur et retarde un millier de passagers à l’aéroport Marseille Provence (Drunk, he opened the barriers by mistake and delayed 1,000 passengers at Marseille-Provence airport)

I don't use autocorrect, I'm just a shit typist!

Oops, attic in Michigan, not attack! The only attack is the comedy mallet which features in the film

This film is incredible - made in 1897 it is probably the world's first example of cinema special effects. Made by French cinema pioneer Georges Méliès it was lost for over a century before a copy was discovered in an attack in Michigan

Photo of 4 fancy dress masks - ex French president (and jailbird) Nicolas Sarkozy, new Paris mayor Emmanuel Grégoire, American musician and paedophile Michael Jackson and Donald Trump aka a sack of shit

New Paris mayor Emmanuel Grégoire has truly made it now - available as a fancy dress face mask. Let's hope he does better than the other 3 reprobates

Who is your deputé??

Florent Wieczorek wearing his signature glasses, with bright orange frames

For those who thought Fabien Galthié had the best glasses in rugby, may I present to you the 🇫🇷 women's attack coach Florent Wieczorek

How to watch the Women’s Six Nations on TV in France The undercard acts of the men’s senior and under-20 tournaments are over, and it’s time for the main show — the Women’s Six Nations, which kicks off on April 11th. Here’s where and how you can catch it if you can’t make the matches themselves.

Rugby treble tomorrow 🍻

Coming from the country of 'chicken tikka masala', I don't have a leg to stand on

Or a 'French tacos'?

“My daughter saw it on TikTok and we had to come,” said tourist Lauren Davies. “I get it, for Parisians this is what a hot dog is to New Yorkers.”

The difference being, of course, that a jambon-beurre is actually edible

Full story here, plus background on all the other French politicians who launched their campaigns with a soft-focus Paris Match photoshoot

Today's horrifying French fairytale is . . . The Princess and the Facho.
Far-right leader Jordan Bardella 'surprised' by photographers while on holiday with his new partner, Italian princess Maria Caroline. Cynical people suggest it's the unofficial launch of his presidential campaign

Stocking up on popcorn 🍿 (and beer, obviously)