France Soir

...driven to the team's riders in the Tour de France led to evidence that doping was widespread in the team. In September 1998, the newspaper France Soir published statements made to the police. Two riders, Armin Meier and Christophe Moreau, said...

In this article: Christophe Bassons, Lance Armstrong, Festina, Tour de France, and Christophe Moreau

...crowds gather to see the end of the Tour de France, Maizy also points out the world's first LED-lit building now owned by French newspaper France-Soir. With 100,000 trees lining the boulevards, Paris has become the most wooded European...

In this article: Paris, Robert DeNiro, Andre Le Notre, Canal de l'Ourcq, Arc de Triomphe, Marseille, and Eiffel Tower

...own separate low-calorie dishes and pick from fruit bowls. How much this dieting wave is down to Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy is debatable, but France Soir recently wrote: "Although a discreet wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has in reality got her hand...

In this article: Nicolas Sarkozy, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Jacques Chirac, Andre Santini, Le Parisien, Christian Estrosi, and Herve Novelli

...First Lady Carla Bruni was yesterday accused of being the 'power behind the throne' by influencing her husband too much. Daily newspaper France-Soir said the former supermodel, pictured with her husband, had moved from catwalk to cabinet...

In this article: Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, UN, Nicolas Sarkozy, New York, France Inter, Philippe Val, and Rachida Dati

...himself in several business ventures, including Star Airlines, and in October 2004 he bought the France Soir newspaper. On February 2, 2006, France Soir published the Muhammad cartoons that caused a lot of havoc and anger among Muslims...

In this article: Raymond Lakah, Egypt, Egyptian Parliament, France, Muhammad, and Le Monde

...festival, academy and military awards and prizes including the Prix Vauban, in 1984, celebrating his life achievement. In France he is famous for his 1973 three-time Cesar Award-winning Le Crabe-Tambour ("Drummer Crab"), based on his...

In this article: Pierre Schoendoerffer, Joseph Kessel, Viet Minh, First Indochina War, and Dien Bien Phu

...prospered during the 1950s and 1960s, but has declined since then, under various owners. It was re-launched as a populist tabloid in 2006. France Soir was originally founded as the underground paper Defense de la France ("Defense of...

In this article: Prophet Muhammad, Bankruptcy, World War II, Moscow News, Arkadi Gaydamak, and Raymond Lakah

...by Sablon International, a French company owned by Alexander Pugachev, the son of the Russian oligarch Sergei Pugachev, to take over France-Soir, a struggling evening newspaper. Last week, Artem Artemov, a spokesman for Aleksandr Lebedev,...

In this article: Aleksandr Lebedev, London, Evening Standard, Daily Mail & General Trust, Roy Greenslade, Mikhail Gorbachev, Democracy, and Polonium

...south of the river. In London, among the large French community, the adage is well-known," read the opening lines of an article in France-Soir. "But considering the exorbitant price of rents in the British capital, there are numerous...

In this article: London, Quentin Tarantino, Antagonism, and Imperial College

...exactly the same thing if it had been a pope, rabbi or priest caricature," wrote Editor in Chief Serge Faubert in Thursday's editions of France Soir, one of the newspapers that printed the cartoons. Mahmoud A. Hashem, a businessman in Saudi...

In this article: Islam, Muhammad, Europe, European Union, Najam Sethi, and Jiddah