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French Senate Votes for Legalizing Le Gay Marriage

Maggie Lange · 04/12/13 09:12AM

Today, the French senate voted to legalize gay marriage after a week of heated debate. The bill, which won a 179-157 majority vote, will now return to the National Assembly for a second reading before expected approval in May. The second reading is seen as a technicality as the members of the National Assembly approved the move on February 12.

Creepy French Scientist Is Adamant That Women Should Not Wear Bras

Caity Weaver · 04/11/13 11:23AM

Across the course of history, French discoveries have proved invaluable to the field of science. Children still learn the stories of Louis Pasteur, who discovered that invisibly small bacteria spoil food and cause disease, and Marie Curie, who found and named the unseen power of radioactivity. Now there's one more name to add to the list of geniuses upending the world's assumptions: Professor Jean-Denis Rouillon, who has declared that bras make women's boobs saggy.

French Move Closer to Same-Sex Marriage

Max Rivlin-Nadler · 02/02/13 03:10PM

France, hotbed of infidelity, has taken one step closer to allowing same-sex couples the privilege of having extra-marital affairs. This morning, the National Assembly, which is the lower house of France's parliament (it is much like our Congress, but different in that it appears they vote on things), voted 249 to 97 in favor of gay marriage.

Gérard Depardieu 'Betrays' France for Russia's Flat Tax

Mallory Ortberg · 01/06/13 12:03PM

There is not a detail in the story of France's Orson Welles Gérard Depardieu's apparently-real move to Russia to avoid higher taxes that will not delight you. After President François Hollande attempted to make good on his campaign pledge to increase taxes on the wealthy, Depardieu announced plans to leave France for Russia's 13% flat tax and his new best friend Vladimir Putin.

France Wants To Ban All Homework, French Kids Will Still Smoke Cigarettes and Be Sad Forever

MTanzer · 10/16/12 10:48PM

Every child has wished at one point or another that he or she would walk into school and there would be banners announcing that all homework had been cancelled forever. Of course, God would never answer the prayers of little American boys and girls — but he has heard the cries of French schoolchildren, and their wish is now, almost, a reality.

Your Guide to the Week of Kate Middleton's Boobs and the French Magazine that Published Them

Max Read · 09/20/12 02:30PM

Last Friday, French gossip magazine Closer published a series of photographs of Kate Middleton sunbathing topless. Yesterday morning, police in Paris raided the publication's offices of Closer magazine, searching the building and inspecting the staff's computers in an attempt to find the name of the photographer. And today, the photos were printed, for the fourth and fifth time, respectively, in Sweden and Denmark.

Margaret Thatcher Isn't Dead Yet

Adrian Chen · 05/09/12 02:11PM

Recork your champagne: Margaret Thatcher is not dead. A French breaking news Twitter account LesNews apparently started a fake rumor that former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had died. Their source: a tweet from a fake Carla Bruni Twitter account.