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Articles Written by: AGNES POIRIER
"It was already a miracle [for France] to have survived two hours of such an abysmal and nonexistent game comprising little boys' passes and very ordinary players' timidity. A miracle indeed to have survived all the Irish opportunities throughout a ...
Proust is too long, too expensive and impossible to read in the bath, says Germaine Greer. Has she had a bang on the head?
La Greer – or Professor Greer as her assistant once corrected me after I addressed her as, simply, Madame Greer – is all upset. I ...
From AGNèS POIRIER,
Comment Is Free,
9 Nov 2009
I know force-feeding is cruel, but the former James Bond's call to send foie gras the way of life's other pleasures must be resisted
I love Roger Moore and I love foie gras but the first wants to have the second banned. What cruel dilemma: que faire? ...
Knowing that Tony Blair’s most ardent supporters for the position of Europe’s president are Silvio Berlusconi and Nicolas Sarkozy should be enough to raise any European’s eyebrows.
Some argue he is disqualified by being British. How can the citizen of ...
From AGNèS POIRIER,
Times Online,
28 Oct 2009
Roman Polanski, right, and his attorney Douglas Dalton in court in 1977. Photograph: AP
Roman Polanski, who hasn't set foot in Britain since 1978 for fear of extradition, was arrested yesterday in Zurich by the Swiss police for an assault he pleaded ...
From AGNèS POIRIER,
Comment Is Free,
28 Sep 2009
It's murky and it runs deep; it's called L'Affaire Clearstream. It's been going on for five years and now it's being played out in court for every French citizen to see. From day one in court, L'Affaire appears trickier and more tortuous than an early ...
From AGNèS POIRIER,
Comment Is Free,
22 Sep 2009
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Agnès Poirier talks to Paul Fournel, Nicole Farhi, AC Grayling and Jane Birkin about the French icon's appeal
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Brigitte Bardot faces the photographers at a film party in 1960. Photograph: RDA/Getty Images
After the internation uproar and scandal provoked by the 1956 film And God Created Woman, said she wished she had never been born. Now, as Bardot – "the ...
Paris by bike ... Agnès and Aisling hired Vélib bikes for their tour of the city. Photograph: Pawel Libera/Corbis
However, at the time, in order to salve my city's honour, I offered myself to Guardian readers as their very own Paris greeter. Among the 7 ...
Britain is a scary place for a woman in her 30s, especially if she hasn't had children yet or hasn't thought of having any, out of choice or just forgetfulness. Week after week, broadsheets and tabloids tell her that she's facing an "infertility time ...
