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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 4h

Paris deputy mayor David Belliard: “The redistribution of public space is a policy of social redistribution.
“50% of public space is occupied by private cars so if we give the space to walking, biking, and public transit, you give back public space to categories of people who today are deprived."

Explained: Paris' new limits on cars in city centre

From Monday, November 4th vehicles are banned from a large swathe of Paris' city centre, as part of the French capital's ongoing environmental plans. Here's how the new regulations work, and the excep...

www.thelocal.fr

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 4h

Cars account for just 4.3% of journeys in Paris. So motorists may be 'living in fear' (although that sounds unlikely) but the vast majority of Parisians, far from seeing red, are pretty happy with expanded space for pedestrians, cyclists and public transport users

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 4h

Paris sees red as mayor drives cars off the road

Motorists in the French capital live in fear of the tow truck and sky-high parking fines

Paris sees red as mayor drives cars off the road

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 4h

True, although it's not like other European countries don't have people in those jobs. I think the best explanation is, as you say, that it's not really about retiring at 64, it's about anger at inequality and feeling left behind and cheated

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 4h

Interesting! I'm going to make a diary note to come back to this in 2031 and see if my feelings have shifted . . .

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 5h

Obviously I do understand the arguments about pension regimes for physically strenuous work, pension rates for women and career length (plus the general concept of not penalising the vulnerable during a government economy drive). It's just the anger over the 64 retirement age that I struggle with

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 5h

The 🇫🇷 pension argument makes me feel very foreign. I still, after 6 years of these various reform debates, cannot understand the level of fury at the idea of raising the pension age to 64 (which would still be the lowest in Europe) in a country with an ageing population 🤷‍♀️

OPINION: Macron has slammed France into reverse gear with pension surrender

Emmanuel Macron has performed a humiliating U-turn and agreed to suspend his pension reform in order to avoid another collapsed government - his surrender will ultimately harm France, says John Lichfi...

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 1d

The street artists of Paris 19eme have a suggestion for 🇫🇷 ongoing political drama . . .

Street art with a picture of a guillotine and the caption, in French, 'the worst scum are those in suits'

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 1d

I did! What a delightful film

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 1d

Went old school for tonight's entertainment - ZouZou (1934). One of Jean Gabin's earliest talking roles but starring the incredible Josephine Baker, such a gifted physical comedian (and singer/dancer obviously)

Dvd case for the film ZouZou, starring Jean Gabin and Josephine Baker. The technicolor film poster (although the film is black and white) shows Baker on a swing in her cabaret outfit

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 4d

Buy one Covid vaccine, get a new government free!

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 4d

Cancan dancer Louise Weber, known as La Goulue, also pops up in this expo, photographed in Paris aged about 50

The Toulouse-Lautrec poster for La Goulue (Louise Weber) at the Moulin Rouge

Louise Weber, aged about 50, photographed in Paris

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 4d

In the 1920s, Paris hosted events for women who had reached the ancient age of 25 without getting married . . . They were known as Catherinettes

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 4d

Really recommend the truly fascinating Gens de Paris 1926-1936 expo at Musée Carnavalet. A treasure trove of fascinating detail on the lives of Parisians, based on census data

Exhibition - Les gens de Paris (the people of Paris) 1926-1936

A Paris baker, circa 1926, with a truly magnificent moustache

Campaign from the inter-war period warning of the falling birth rate.

Age data of the population of Paris in 1926. Note birth rate dips during the Seige of Paris (1870) and World War I

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 4d

In 🇫🇷 the Covid vaccine is free, flu vaccine free to high-risk groups, around €10 for everyone else. This year's campaign starts on Wednesday

Details- www.thelocal.fr/20250912/sta...

Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 4d

It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 4d

My column this week, trying to make sense of what is happening in France 🤣

The Local France @thelocalfrance.bsky.social · 4d

Inside France: A history of turmoil through the French republics

From France's ongoing political turmoil to models for government, via sweary commentary and the courage of Gisèle Pelicot, here's what we have been talking about in France this week.

www.thelocal.fr

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 4d

Well that was worth the wait

Macron names France's new prime minister - same as the old prime minister

Emmanuel Macron has reappointed Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, just five days after he quit in the role.

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 4d

Didn't it just

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 4d

No idea what most of those words mean! But good luck with it all . . . 👊

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 4d

That's still one hour after I should reasonably be allowed to open the wine on a Friday evening . . .

Actualités françaises 🇫🇷 @news-flows-fr.bsky.social · 4d

INFO BFMTV - Emmanuel Macron nommera un Premier ministre avant 20h

La nomination du nouveau Premier ministre doit avoir lieu dans les prochaines heures ce vendredi 10 octobre, l'Élysée ayant annoncé mercredi soir que son nom serait connu "d'ici 48 heures". Les chefs de parti, sauf LFI et le...

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 5d

Huh, weird! Wonder what settings i accidentally turned on. Thanks for the info though

Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 6d

Uh, sure - but you will also be opting out of entering the EU/Schengen zone 💁‍♀️

Can I opt out of giving my biometrics under Europe's new border checks?

Non-EU travellers heading to EU/Schengen countries will soon face biometric border controls as the EU’s new Entry/Exit System (EES) comes into force from October 12th. But can travellers opt out?

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 6d

Sorry, hopefully this is not a spoiler! I wasn't really blown away by the series but it does have a cracking soundtrack. Really hope these unsolicited translations are not a sign of things to come

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 6d

I've recently been watching an English-language Netflix show, in English with the subtitles turned off - but because I am in France, Netflix has decided to 'helpfully' translate all the posters and notices that appear in the show into French.
Has anyone else noticed this? It's really annoying!

Screenshot from the English-language Netflix show House of Guinness, in which an election poster has been automatically translated into French to read 'rassemblement électoral, midi 4 août', instead of its original 'election hustings, 12 noon, August 4'

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 7d

He may have, ahem, one or two issues on the domestic front - but on this topic Macron is 100% correct

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 11d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 7d

I usually find Simon Calder pretty accurate, but this does seem to over-complicate massively. I think part of the problem is that media cannot come straight out and say 'just lie and tick yes to everything, no-one is ever going to check', even if that's what they're clearly implying

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