In 1482, in the month of December, King Louis XI was taken ill at Tours, and had Touzelle [wheat] brought from the diocese of Nismes, so that bread could be made for him. The prince, extremely weak in mind and body, and struck with the fear of death beyond all expression, believed that of all the corners of his kingdom, the diocese of Nismes produced the wheat most likely to bring him to health. That’s Léon Ménard in his Histoire de Nîmes of 1755. The passage is quoted in a short post
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I got in to France yesterday, after a pretty awful flight (I had a two-year old terrorist next to me, who screamed and threw things for the entire flight to Paris). After a meeting and dinner with colleagues from India, Ghana, Morocco, and France, I managed to get a bit of sleep. I’ll be at the European Resource Bank here in Marseille, then go to Aix-en-Provence after that for the Summer University of the New Economics (the theme this year is “Markets and Morality”) and a Liberty Fund co
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Gemballa has dropped the first images of its upcoming modification of the four-door Porsche Panamera. Known as the Mistrale (name of a cold, Northwest wind that blows through the region of Provence in the south of France), the Gemballa tuned Panamera will get a new front… Related posts: Gemballa Tornado 750 GTS: A $500,000 750-hp Porsche Cayenne Turbo Gemballa has taken Porsche’s Cayenne Turbo and turned into… Details and Pics Aplenty: Gemballa Mirage GT Carbon Edition Filed unde
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How is this for strange casting news? Brad Pitt is joining the cast of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes . Brad will be playing Sherlock’s arch-nemesis, Professor Moriarty. Even though filming on Sherlock Holmes ended many months ago, it seems Guy Ritchie was rethinking the film as he edited it and showed a rough cut to a select few. Guy and producers decided that Sherlock’s nemesis needed to be bigger, both in film time and characterization. So Guy talked his Snatch buddy Brad Pitt into c
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The Languedoc Roussillon France is diverse in its many regions. It’s comprised of 26 regions to be exact. It’s compiled of five departments, and borders other French regions like the Rhone-Alpes, the Auvergne, the Midi-Pyrenees, and the Provence-Alpes-Cote. Then on the other side it’s bordered by Spain and Andorra, and the Mediterranean Sea. It’s a complicated work of boundaries. It’s flag once displayed the flag of Roussillon and the cross of Languedoc. But later it was transformed into a flag
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In myprevious post on French health care, I went over the basics of how things are done here. In this post I’ll compare some statistics, citing Canada and the UK as well since those two countries have often been the focus of recent debate in the US.

The last time theWorld Health Organisation (WHO) ranked world health systemswas in 2000 — they no longer produce rankings since it’s so complex a task. Here are how the four countries fared:
1. France
18. United Kingdom
30. Canada
37. United States
Countries such as Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Chile also ranked higher than the US.

Life expectancy has become part of the debate in the US currently. These rankings were taken from thelist of countries by life expectancy:
8. France, with an overall life expectancy of 80.87 years
14. Canada, overall life expectancy 80.34 years
37. United Kingdom, overall life expectancy 78.7 years
45. United States, overall life expectancy 78.06 years
The French live nearly 3 years longer than Ameri

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THE NEW YORK TIMES The Hyde Park Farmers’ Market by Kathryn Matthews After buying a weekend house in the Hudson Valley town of Hyde Park, in 2003, Karina Krepp and her husband, Christien Methot, attended the grand opening of a farmers’ market, held on the grassy sprawl of the town’s drive-in theater. As city dwellers who frequented the Union Square farmers’ market in Manhattan, they had anticipated a rinky-dink set-up, confessed Ms. Krepp, 37, a freela
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Overview
France has a public health system called “Sécurité Sociale”, also known as “Assurance Maladie”. It has a standardized, automatic, electronic system for processing bills and reimbursements. Every French citizen enrolled in “sécu”, as it’s called for short, receives a green card with a microchip, called “carte vitale“. Thecarte vitalecontains only insurance-related information: no medical records are stored on it.

It is alsoillegal to publicly advertise pharmaceutical productsand medical services in France. Quote from the linked article: “Direct-to-consumer advertising is forbidden in France for reimbursed and prescription-only drugs, with the exception of vaccines and products used [to help quit smoking].” Pharmacists, doctors, hospitals, etc. can only have office signs, for instance, and there are no TV advertisements for prescription medication.

Sécucovers a range of percentages, up to 70%, of

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A claim made that an Apple iPhone exploded in France is the first such report involving an iPhone, after several have been made about the company’s iPod since it was released. Marie-Dominique Kolega says her 18 year old son was struck in the eye after his girlfriend’s iPhone started hissing, and shattered. She has threatened to file a complaint against Apple over the incident. “My son was frightened but he did not lose an eye,” Kolega, of Aix-en-Provence in southern France, told AFP
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