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A senior aide to French President Nicolas Sarkozy and speech-writer for France's foreign minister, has produced a controversial guide to Paris last month which appears to detail where to pick-up women for sex.
Pierre-Louis Colin, the 34-year-old author lists numerous areas of Paris or "quartiers" as they are known locally, notes the best observation posts, bars, supermarkets, parks, museums, metro trains and the best times of day the types of women ogling men can expect to find.
For example, Menilmontant is full of "perfectly shameless cleavages - radiant breasts often uncluttered by a bra".
While residents of Madeleine, a more upmarket area where France's First Lady Carl Bruni-Sarkozy (below pic) has a home, are noted for their "sublime legs".
He also gives many tips such as where to position oneself so as to get an "unbeatable view" up women's skirts as they climb a spiral staircase -- singling out the Café Louis-Philippe in the fourth arrondissement, or district.
He could find no guidebooks to the human wonders of Paris so he decided to produce his own. Colin insisted that the book, titled "Guide to the Pretty Women of Paris" or "Guide des jolies femmes de Paris", is "in the best possible taste".
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Angry Chinese burn French flag outside Carrefour
There have been small protests at the French retail giant's stores in several Chinese cities, including Beijing, in the past week, but the latest outburst in the eastern coastal city of Qingdao came after state media moved to cool down the nationalistic fervor.
Chinese Internet users are calling on consumers to boycott Carrefour, which they accuse of supporting pro-Tibetan independence groups seeking to disrupt this year's Beijing Olympics.The journey of the Olympic torch around the world has been dogged by protests, largely over Chinese rule in Tibet, where a wave of anti-government unrest erupted in March. In Paris, numerous protests and attempts by activists to snatch the torch prompted Chinese security officials to extinguish the torch several times and put in on a bus.
Local media photos showed the protesters holding up banners that read "Boycott France, Support the Olympics" and "Oppose Tibet independence, Love the motherland". They waved red Chinese flags and shouted slogans, attracting a big crowd of onlookers. A photo showed a man burning a French flag.
France has tried to play down calls for a boycott of French goods, saying they were being made by a "very small minority" and Carrefour, which has more than 100 hypermarkets in China, has restated its support for Beijing's hosting of the Olympics.
Some Chinese newspapers have also run commentaries against the boycott, saying in the era of globalization it would only hurt Chinese employees and suppliers.
Still, an opinion poll in 10 Chinese cities found 66 percent of respondents supported the Carrefour boycott, according to the official Xinhua news agency. Only 7 percent said outright that they would not. (News from Reuters)
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Chinese internet blogs and chat-rooms are full of calls for a boycott of French goods and contracts since the raucous protests which forced the Olympic torch off the streets of Paris last Monday.
French businessmen in China say that they are worried by apparently spontaneous signs of anti-French feeling but say that there is no sign, so far, of any official willingness to "punish" Paris.
Some of the incidents in the French capital – especially an attempt by a demonstrator to seize the flame from a Chinese woman in a wheelchair – have been shown repeatedly on Chinese TV.(See pic below)
"France didn't protect the sacred flame," protested the Global Times, a tabloid newspaper. "The world has seen the irrational extremism of some in the West, and also seen the incompetence of the Paris police."
Chatrooms on the internet have been choked with appeals to boycott French luxury goods, such as cognac, wine and perfumes, whose sales are booming in China. There have also been calls for a scrapping of multi-billion euro contracts recently signed during a visit by President Nicolas Sarkozy.
French businessmen in Beijing told Le Monde that there was no sign the online protests would be followed up officially.
Previous popular appeals for the boycott of goods of nations who have offended popular nationalist feeling in China – including Japan and South Korea – have had little impact, the businessmen said.
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China's hopes of winning international prestige by sending the Olympic torch through 135 cities on five continents ahead of the August 8 opening of the Olympic Games had been damaged by bout of protests in her human rights record.
The early stages in London and Paris were overshadowed by demonstrations against Beijing's repression of protests in Tibet, and the third stage in San Francisco was also drastically curtailed and seen by relatively few people.
However, the most recent relays in Buenos Aires and Dar es Salaam passed off with little incident. The Olympic torch is expected to get a rare protest-free outing Monday in a parade through the capital of the Sultanate of Oman on the Middle Eastern leg of its journey to Beijing.
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IOC President Jacques Rogge said a boycott of the opening ceremony, where every competing country marches into the main Olympic stadium behind their national flag, would perhaps hurt athletes but nobody else.
How could the Olympics, a beautiful game promoting friendship and sports around the world be use in such extent to propagate somebody's political agenda? China human rights record had been in doubts much before the coming Beijing Olympics, why did protests on Tibet only surface recently? Would China's human rights records be changed overnight or drastically just by protesting the passing of the Olympics torch?
Carla Bruni Nude Photo Sold for $91K in Auction
A nude photo of French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, standing in a pigeon-toed pose and covering her modesty with her hands, was sold on Thursday in New York for $91,000, more than 20 times its expected price.
A buyer for a Chinese art collector bought the black-and-white image, taken by photographer Michel Comte in 1993 during her modeling days, Christie's auction house said.
The sale of the photo has attracted attention since Bruni married French President Nicolas Sarkozy in February.
The photo had been expected to fetch between $3,000 and $4,000. It was auctioned as part of a sale of 140 photos from German collector Gert Elfering, which also features work by Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton and Peter Beard.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, flanked by his model wife Carla Bruni, was greeted with pomp by Queen Elizabeth on Wednesday for the first French state visit in more than a decade.
Prince Charles and Princess Camilia had greeted and welcomed the French glamorous first couple at the airport (see pic below), whose visit comes weeks after they married following a high-profile, whirlwind romance.
Dressed in a demure gray coat and wearing a small, stylish hat, Carla Bruni smiled politely and curtsied as she shook hands with the Queen and then chatted animatedly with the monarch's 86-year-old husband, Prince Philip. (see pic below)
Thousands of people gathered on the streets of Windsor said they had come to see not only the Queen but also Carla Bruni, a former fashion model born in Italy who has also enjoyed a successful career as a singer and songwriter. (see pic below)
As a band played and flags were waved, the French couple and the Queen and Prince Philip were taken into the grounds of Windsor Castle in horse-drawn carriages, where they inspected a parade of marching royal guardsmen. Bystanders were thrilled at the spectacle.
The couple will spend the night at the castle, just outside of London. (see pic below)
The Queen, who speaks fluent French, and Sarkozy, who speaks little English, chatted politely as they walked in the courtyard of Windsor Castle, while multi-lingual Carla Bruni and Prince Philip were more animated in their discussions (see pic below).
As they stood in a line, Carla Bruni, who is 5 foot 9 inches (1.75 meters) tall, towered over her husband, who at around 5 foot 5 inches is much closer in height to the Queen.
Some British newspapers had greeted the arrival of France's head of state by publishing pictures of his wife, Carla posing naked for a fashion shoot more than 15 years ago.
And most eyes and cameras were on Carla Bruni, who Sarkozy married just four months after he divorced his second wife Cecilia.
After months of often damaging headlines at home, Sarkozy may be hoping that images of him in royal surroundings, will stand him in better stead.
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WARNING : Only persons comfortable with what the French consider nudity should read more below where there are uncensored photos.
A nude portrait of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's wife Carla Bruni will go under the hammer in New York next month, according to auctioneers Christie's. The 13 x 10 1/8 inch gelatin silver black and white photograph was taken in 1993, when Bruni was one of the world's top fashion models, and is being sold by art collector Gert Elfering.
It is expected to fetch $3,000 to $4,000 when it is sold in New York on April 10, according to the Christie's web site.
Sarkozy married Bruni, 40, in February after a whirlwind romance that began shortly after his divorce from his second wife Cecilia. Their relationship has coincided with a sharp fall in Sarkozy's approval ratings which have tumbled as voters judged that the president's glitzy lifestyle jarred with his responsibilities and status as head of state.
Sarkozy and his new wife are due to pay a state visit to Britain this week during which they will be hosted by Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle. Word had that Carla Bruni is horrified.
But the auction house has defended its upcoming sale by saying that the photos are works of art and that Carla is one of the most beautiful women in the world.
Bruni's black-and-white photo shows the model standing topless in a studio covering her privates with cupped hands (see auction photo below).
Other photos included in the nude model auction: Giselle Bundchen and Kate Moss.
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The French are certainly quick to find partners after their divorce.
France's former first lady, Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz, 50, and Attias (see pic below), a 48-year-old Moroccan-born public relations executive, plan to tie the knot Sunday in a civil ceremony before 148 guests, with a reception at Rockefeller Center to follow.
Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz, along with fiance Richard Attias and two bus loads of family and friends, attended Saturday night's performance of Mamma Mia! at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway – as a pre-wedding celebration
During the Broadway show, the couple sat in the center of the theater three rows from the back in the orchestra section. At intermission, they mingled with guests. The soon-to-be newlyweds even got a shout-out at the end of the show from cast member Andy Kelso, who said, "And congratulations to Cecilia and Richard!"
Ciganer-Albeniz divorced current French president Nicolas Sarkozy on Oct. 18 after 11 years of marriage. Sarkozy wed former model Carla Bruni (See pic below) on Feb. 2. 
