'Gay marriage divides far-right National Front'

FRENCH PAPERS, Tues. 08/01/13: François Hollande is meeting religious leaders today for his New Year’s greetings. The Catholic Church is upset about the government’s gay marriage bill and has called on followers to demonstrate against it on Sunday. Meanwhile, Libération says the far-right National Front is divided on gay marriage. Also, Virgin runs into financial trouble in France and Gérard Depardieu says he will keep his French citizenship.

IN THE PAPERS

By Florence VILLEMINOT

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Some articles from today’s French press review:

LE PARISIEN: “Hollande tries to calm down Catholics on gay marriage”

LIBERATION: National Front divided on gay marriage

LIBERATION: Virgin’s financial woes in France

LE FIGARO: Depardieu will keep his French nationality

10/02/2010 - FRENCH PRESS REVIEW

Portrait of Sarkozy painted by his father could sell for €14,000

Is Pal Sarkozy capitalising on his son’s fame?! The father of the French President has painted his son and his daughter-in-law, Carla Bruni and their paintings are included in an exhibition of the First Father’s work in his home city of Budapest.

09/02/2010 - INTERNATIONAL PRESS REVIEW

“France’s greatest thinker fooled by Kant hoax”

The Times’ Paris correspondent Charles Bremner is in gleeful mood this morning recounting the woes of famous French philosopher Bernard-Herni Lévy. “BHL” as he is known is “the laughing stock of the Left Bank” having referenced a philosopher who does not exist in his latest book.

09/02/2010 - FRENCH PRESS REVIEW

French debate on national identity was a “fiasco”

Libération’s editorial this morning is entitled “rabbit fart” – not exactly a flattering summing up of Immigration Minister Eric Besson’s three-month debate on French national identity. Le Figaro is also critical saying that the Government’s proposals at the conclusion of the national identity debate “fall far short of expectations”.

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