French Face of the Week
Photo: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP
Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi has emerged as an original and talented film director, no longer in the shadow of her younger, more famous sister, Carla. At this year's Cannes festival, she is flying the flag for women as the only female director in competition.
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France's culinary Macchiavelli, Naoëlle D’Hainaut, considers stealing her opponent's shrimp, on her way to being crowned France's Top Chef 2013. Photo: 20 Minutes/Dailymotion
Naoëlle d'Hainaut might have been acclaimed as France's Top Chef for 2013, but a fateful moral slip involving a bowl of shrimp has brought a tidal wave of hatred upon her. Our French Face of the Week won the prize money, but at what cost?
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French-Indian actor and Bollywood star Kalki Koechlin. Photo: Youtube/Rajshri
Unknown in France, but a superstar on the streets of India, Kalki Koechlin says of herself: “My skin is white, but my heart is brown.” Known for playing the complex foreign woman in Bollywood movies, she is our French Face of the Week.
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Grégory Villemin. Photo: AFP
The 29 years since four-year-old French boy Grégory Villemin was drowned have been marked by revenge, dashed hopes, anonymous taunting phone calls, and mystery. The case, which has gripped France, once again dominated the headlines this week.
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Nabilla Benattia, pictured in Paris on April 11th. Photo: Miguel Medina/AFP
Admirers call her a "bimbo", and she considers her Double D cup breasts the "best investment" she ever made. A reality TV star, hungry for fame in the English-speaking world, meet Nabilla Benattia - the French Kim Kardashian.
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France's Grand Rabbi Gilles Bernheim, pictured in Paris in October 2012. Photo: Fred Dufour/AFP
A scandal that would have stayed hidden in the margins of some academic journal is currently engrossing France. At the centre is Grand Rabbi Gilles Bernheim, the popular leader of France's Jewish community, who resigned on Thursday amid mounting pressure.
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Edwy Plenel, pictured in Paris in 2012. Photo: Martin Bureau/AFP
For 30 years he's been France's muck-raking journalist par excellence, and this week his investigative news site caused one of the most spectacular political downfalls in recent French history. Edwy Plenel is our French Face of the Week.
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Christine Boutin (centre), receives care next to the Champs Elysées at an anti-gay marriage rally in Paris on March 24th. Photo: Eric Feferberg/AFP
She was once a French government minister, but her bible-waving and penchant for drama make her a target for ridicule. On Sunday, Christine Boutin became an internet phenomenon - that's why she's our French Face of the Week.
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Patrick Dils, pictured in Lyon in 2007. Photo: Jeff Pachoud/AFP
Patrick Dils, our French face of the week, spent 15 years in jail after being wrongly convicted of murdering two children. This week he came a step closer to redemption when prosecutors revealed another man would be tried for the killings.
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23-year-old French student Louis Godart (right) gives his CV to French President François Hollande in Dijon on March 11th. Photo: Screengrab/Louis Godart/Youtub
France is full of hundreds of thousands of jobless youngsters but one job seeker stood out this week when he boldly confronted the French president in the street, asking him for an internship at the Elysée Palace (see video). Louis Godart is our French Face of the Week.
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Liliane Bettencourt, pictured during a TV interview on July 14th, 2010. Photo: Screengrab France 3/AFP
The heiress to the L'Oreal beauty products empire, she was just named the world's richest woman. But mental health woes and a feud with her daughter have tainted her twilight years. Liliane Bettencourt is our French Face of the Week.
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Mourners gather at Bastille to pay respects to Stéphane Hessel. Photo: Kenzo Tribouillard /AFP
One inspirational Frenchman dominated the headlines this week when his wife announced his death at the age of 95. Stéphane Hessel, the former French Resistance fighter who inspired a global movement is The Local's French Face of the Week.
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Emmanuelle Riva in Remiremont, France on January 25th. Photo: Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP
More than half a century ago, she exploded onto the scene of world cinema, then almost completely disappeared from public life. But on February 24th, her 86th birthday, she could become the oldest person ever to win an acting Oscar. Meet Emmanuelle Riva, our French Face of the Week.
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Serge Charnay, waving from a 43-metre crane in Nantes, on February 17th, the third day of his protest to reclaim the right to visit his estranged son. Photo: Frank Perry/AFP
A desperate, loving father kept from his son, or a manipulative, abusive attention-seeker? Either way, it was impossible to ignore his dramatic four-day protest in Nantes from Friday to Monday. Meet Serge Charnay, our French Face of the Week.
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La Fouine, performing in Dakar, Senegal on November 9th, 2012. Photo: The Mo Ibrahim Foundation
He sells out venues all over France, and has a classic ‘rags to riches’ life story. But lately the drug-dealer turned rapper who calls himself ‘The Weasel’, has become embroiled in France’s biggest hip-hop feud, which this week took a violent twist. Meet La Fouine, our French Face of the Week.
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