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https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/870407981044834304/photo/1 Tim Smith sent me a link today to a new website meant to attract hi...

This Canal+ March 22 interview with Fatou Diome is a beautiful response to the proposed policies of the French presidential candidate Marin...

My personal reaction to the events that rocked the Hexagon recently has been to avoid the media reports domestic (France) or foreign (the US...

Late this morning I was at the American church and as I and a friend were walking out on the way to lunch, the staff at the church gave us t...

For those of you who missed the FATCA debate yesterday in the French parliament, here are the essential links: The video of the discussion...

Got an email yesterday from a Flophouse reader pointing out that the UMP Quebec 2014 twitter feed  recently tweeted two Flophouse posts.  Th...

I'm almost finished with a really good book by Alan Weisman called The World Without Us .  It's a thought experiment:  What if human...

It's official, Axa Banque sent letters out recently to their U.S. Person clients informing them that they are no longer welcome chez eux...

Last night I trekked into Paris to the American Library to hear Justin E. Smith expand on the themes he wrote about in his New York Times op...

Writing about the Hollande affair last week I said, "The Powers That Be in this country seem to be a bit behind the times. Sleeping wi...

Versailles is so much more than that gaudy gilded monstrosity at the other end of of town.  Take the road from my house to the Montreuil tra...

Good post up with links on Arun with a View about a tale that has all of France buzzing.  I won't go into the salacious details here - ...

Before Christmas I was talking to an older woman I know from church.  One of her daughter-in-laws is American (fancy that) and she is both p...

This morning I listened to Greil Marcus' 2013 commencement address to the New York School of Visual Arts on Brain Pickings . Lots of...

In yesterday's post about my house in Porchefontaine I alluded to something called paternalisme industriel . This term describes attit...

A topic that I am tenaciously investigating right now is my house.  It is a weird little house. Though there are many detached houses ( ...

Yesterday was busy busy here at the Flophouse.  First thing in the morning after coffee was a trip to the wood guy in Viroflay for another...