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Thousands of people, including relatives, friends and disciples, flocked to Lyon cathedral on Friday, some standing in the rain for hours, to bid a final farewell to the city’s favourite son, Paul Bocuse. Paul Bocuse, who died last Saturday aged 91, established a global network of admirers throughout his extended career, providing inspiration to a multitude of chefs for his nouvelle cuisine style. But despite his global fame, the "pope of French cuisine" always remained accessible to the people of Lyon, who tued out in droves on Friday for his funeral service. “Monsieur Paul, you loved your city and it loved you,” said Interior Minister Gérard Collomb, a longtime mayor of Lyon, in a moving tribute that captured the mood in France’s capital of gastronomy. Laurence Fayolle, a local, sheltered under an umbrella outside the Cathedral Saint-Jean while she waited for the service to start. She braved the cold rain “because I am Lyonnaise and I like to cook,” she said. “I knew all his restaurants.” She didn’t know Bocuse personally, but she used to see him around town because he used to frequent a restaurant in her neighbourhood, and once she shook his hand. Th, ...ادامه مطلب

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Jean Rochefort, the French actor who played a key role in one of the most cursed movie sagas in Hollywood history, has died aged 87, his daughter told AFP Monday. Rochefort was a French national treasure when he was cast to play Don Quixote in 1998 by the former Monty Python member Terry Gilliam, who dreamed of bringing Cervantes' "unfilmable" novel to the big screen. But things soon b, ...ادامه مطلب

The French writer and actress Anne Wiazemsky, who famously wrote a best-selling account of her short marriage to New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard, died of cancer in Paris on Thursday, her family said. "Anne died this moing. She had been very sick," her brother Pierre Wiazemsky, an actor, told AFP. Wiazemsky, 70, made her screen debut as an elfin 19-year-old in "Au Hasard Balthazar",, ...ادامه مطلب

A young French reporter who has been held on terror charges in Turkey for the last seven weeks is set to be freed Friday, his lawyers said. The news came a day after French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian had pressed Turkish leaders on a visit to Ankara to free 27-year-old joualism student, Loup Bureau. Bureau's lawyers said "we have the satisfaction to announce that he is being, ...ادامه مطلب

The young French reporter Loup Bureau arrived back in Paris on Sunday, "tired but relieved", after being detained for more than seven weeks in a Turkish jail on terror charges. The 27-year-old's case had heightened alarm in Europe over press freedoms under Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who launched a wide-ranging crackdown after last year's failed coup against him. Bureau, a, ...ادامه مطلب

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