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FILE - In this Nov.15, 2012 file photo, French actor Eric Debrosse acting as former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn, left, and actress Jelle Saminnadin acting as Nafissatou Diallo, the hotel housekeeper, who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her, pose during a photo opportunity as they perform in a play "Suite 2806" in a Paris theatre. One-time French presidential hopeful Dominique Strauss Kahn has been to hell and back since he was charged, then acquitted in New York of making a hotel maid perform a sexual act in 2011. Now DSK will be treading the boards, in a salacious new play that recounts knock for knock what might have happened in the now infamous suite of the Manhattan Sofitel hotel. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

Strauss-Kahn drama hits the French stage

Thomas Adamson · December 18, 2012 4:06 pm

FILE - This Sept. 22 1970 file photo shows Mick Jagger, center, lead singer of The Rolling Stones pop music group, with a straw hat, as he and guitarist Mick Taylor and drummer Charlie Watts, right in bow tie, pose during a press conference at the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, France . In 1972, The Rolling Stones controversially moved to the south of France to escape onerous British taxes. Though it caused a stink at the time, it spawned one of the groupâs most seminal albums, âExile on Main St.â The title is a reference to their tax-dodging. (AP Photo, Cardenas, File)

Pennies over patriotism? Stars move to tax havens

Thomas Adamson · December 13, 2012 11:57 am

Members of the Bloco de Frevo group perform during a carnival parade in Olinda, in Brazil's northern Pernambuco state, Jan. 25, 2008. Frevo, the most popular rhythm of Pernambuco's carnival, turns 100 yeas and the Mangueira group, one of Brazil's best loved samba groups, will present a mix of samba and frevo during the Rio de Janeiro's carnival. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Rituals, dances and carnivals win UN protection

Thomas Adamson · December 7, 2012 5:46 pm

Molecatcher Jerome Dormion uses a shovel in the park of the Chateau de Versailles, west of Paris, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012. The king is dead, but the molecatcher lives on. He even signs SMS messages: âMolecatcher to the king.â Itâs been over two centuries since Louis XVI was guillotined on Parisâ Place de la Concorde, but the job of hunting the underground rodent that so troubled French monarchs on the grounds of the Versailles palace still exists. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

The ‘royal molecatcher’ outlives Versailles king

Thomas Adamson · December 6, 2012 12:20 pm

18th-century French chateau razed ‘by mistake’

18th-century French chateau razed ‘by mistake’

Thomas Adamson · December 5, 2012 1:41 pm

A woman walk past "La Vierge, l'Enfant Jesus et Sainte Anne" by Leonard de Vinci in the Louvre Museum in Lens, northern France, Monday, Dec. 3, 2012. The museum in Lens, to open the 12 Dec, is part of a strategy to spread art beyond the traditional bastions of culture in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)

Louvre comes to poor French city, raising eyebrows

Thomas Adamson · December 4, 2012 4:36 pm

Teen deaths case behind French riots reopens

Teen deaths case behind French riots reopens

Thomas Adamson · October 31, 2012 4:39 pm

French government gets anti-sexism lessons

French government gets anti-sexism lessons

Sylvie Corbet, Thomas Adamson · October 30, 2012 4:00 am

Fashion show canceled after collection is lost

Fashion show canceled after collection is lost

Thomas Adamson · October 1, 2012 5:19 pm

FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2009 file photo, Bernard Arnault. Chairman and CEO of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the Paris-based luxury goods empire, presents the group's 2008 results in Paris. La Libre Belgique newspaper reported Saturday Sept.8, 2012 that Arnault's citizenship application was confirmed by the head of Belgium's naturalization office. French media drew a connection to French President Francois Hollande's plan to raise the tax rate on France's highest earners to 75 percent. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

French tycoon’s threat shakes Socialist tax plan

Thomas Adamson · September 10, 2012 4:00 am

Babybel boycott after slogan offends mentally ill

Babybel boycott after slogan offends mentally ill

Thomas Adamson · August 9, 2012 5:32 pm

Marker, famed French director of ‘La Jetee,’ dies

Marker, famed French director of ‘La Jetee,’ dies

Thomas Adamson · July 30, 2012 6:52 pm