Sun, 22 November 2009
Some 450 pre-Columbian pieces in Quai Branly museum.
Includes geography, people, government, economy and transnational issues.
Basil Howitt on criminal investigations in the coastal resorts.
Useful information on renting accommodation in Paris.
Relocating can have a big impact on your relationship.
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In a double feature we take a look at France's new first lady Carla Bruni as Paul Ricard traces her route from catwalk to Elysee and Nicolas Sarkozy: France's 'hyper-president'France's new first lady Carla Bruni is a rich Italian heiress who moved from a successful career as a supermodel in the 1990s to that of a ballad singer with a hit record.
The mayor of the eighth arrondissement of Paris - which takes in the Elysee presidential palace -married President Nicolas Sarkozy and Bruni, after a whirlwind romance of barely three months.
The tall 40-year-old brunette has been romantically linked to a string of famous men including rock stars Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton as well as tycoon Donald Trump.
"I am a tamer (of men), a cat, an Italian," she told Le Figaro magazine in
February last year. "Monogamy bores me terribly."
"I am monogamous from time to time but I prefer polygamy and polyandry," its female equivalent.
She briefly paired up with Paris lawyer Arno Klarsfeld, who later became a member of Sarkozy's inner circle, before starting a relationship with editor
Jean-Paul Enthoven and later becoming involved with his son.
Bruni has a six-year-old son, Aurelien, from her relationship with
philosopher Raphael Enthoven.
Enthoven's ex-wife Justine Levy, who is the daughter of philosopher
Bernard-Henri Levy, published a 2004 novel with a character based on Bruni: a
man-eater described as "beautiful and bionic, with the eyes of a killer" and
"an immobile face, as if sculpted in wax".
Born into a wealthy Turin tyre-manufacturing family, Bruni made a second
fortune in modelling, becoming one of the world's best paid models at the
height of her catwalk career.
According to an industry magazine, she was earning more than seven million
dollars a year in the late 1990s, alongside the likes of Claudia Schiffer,
Our expert Steven Grover delves into the murky waters of French healthcare for expats and asks how recent changes affect them?
Tax and estate planning figure prominently in the list of priorities of many financially secure expatriate residents of France.
From Gaelic clubs to Canadian Alumni organisations, there is bound to be an English-speaking club for you in France.
This is what you need to consider when making an early choice between purchasing or renting accommodation in France.
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