Promoting France – good news/bad news

I read with some amusement, the International Herald Tribune (Jan 26 2007) advertising section promoting doing “business in France.” A front page article–an interview of Philippe Favre, Chairman of Invest in France Agency–caught my attention....

Promoting France – Article Grandes Ecoles

I read the IHT (Jan 26 2007) advertised section promoting “doing business in France.” The following excerpt caught my attention about the notoriety of the Grandes Ecoles: “Grands Ecoles: Great schools leading to great jobs… Ms. XXX arrived at...

School Reunions in England… Europe next?

Reunions crossing the Atlantic I have just come back from celebrating my 25th school reunion at Eton… and what a grand experience it was. The usual trepidations, unfamiliar faces mixed with completely recognizable ones (who don’t seem to have aged one...

France bans smoking in work place

For a country that has seen women smokers double since the 60s to 22% of all adults, France has finally come around to banning smoking in the workplace. Funnily enough, yesterday, when going into a few offices, I saw colleagues taking their last ceremonious smoke...

The petite BIG restaurant in London

This was a perfectly trendy restaurant in Notting Hill, London, and, with a happy air, we all ordered our choices off the menu. Only upon further review did I notice a few oddities. Was it a French restaurant in London run by the Chinese? An English owner who had...

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