Latest update : 2013-12-30

The anti-Semitic comic, the footballer and the 'quenelle'

Papers lead on the anti-Semitic comic Dieudonné, who Interior Minister Manuel Valls wants banned. The comedian's anti-Semitism is headline news outside France as well after footballer Nicolas Anelka did a "quenelle" - a downward-pointing Nazi salute - in support of the comic during a match in the UK. Also in this review, Sarkonostalgia ... and the French are not the moaners and pessimists you might think. Join us for this edition.

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Some articles from today’s French press review:

Libération on govt response to comedian Dieudonné and his anti-Semitic remarks

Le Figaro on thorny question of censoring Dieudonné

Libération on Nicolas Sarkozy’s rising popularity

Le Parisien encourages the French to be optimistic fore 2014 with three commandments on how to be positive in life

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FLORENCE VILLEMINOT Press Reviewer

As a bilingual Franco-American, she enjoys explaining everything French to an Anglophone audience…as well as scanning papers from around the world for quirky articles and unique analysis pieces.

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