The recession has made one American staple an export hit: le comfort food.
We still had pilgrimage villages to hit: Le Tholonet, where Cézanne favored a small restaurant now called Le Relais Cézanne.
Then we might have gone down to the site of Studio 54, which inspired his first No. 1 hit, "Le Freak," in 1978, as the songwriter, guitarist and producer of the funk band Chic, a group that transcended the clich?of the disco era and became influential across styles.
The Bureau of Found Objects would have made an interesting subject for Brassens, whose lyric songs often railed against law enforcement (in his 1952 hit "Le Gorille," for instance, a gorilla escapes from a zoo and sodomizes a heartless judge in his robes), or for his contemporaries Jacques Brel and Serge Gainsbourg, who often mocked French bureaucracy.
It's been adapted by Sean Foley from a 1969 Paris hit, Le Contrat, by Francis Veber, which has been thrice filmed – on one occasion by Billy Wilder as Buddy Buddy, which although it starred Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, led the director to say "the best thing about the film was that not very many people saw it".
It's not something you want to happen when you hit Le Web next week.
When I saw PB planned to hit Le Poisson Rouge, I begged VICE to let me cover it, secretly fulfilling a long-standing dream of mine to see that dude spin.
Tristes Topiques: Speaking of internal strife, France's public squabbling -- which has reached such depths that according to Coach Raymond Domenech, some players may not even show up for the South Africa game on Tuesday -- has now hit Les Bleus where it hurts most, dans le portefeuille (in the wallet).
The holiday season hit "Les Misérables" helped the Universal movie division, which had a 2 percent increase in revenue and 10.3 percent increase in operating cash flow.
