There was enough going on, or so it seemed to me.
I cannot expect Var-Matin, which I buy loyally every day, to bother itself with the death of Barney McKenna, the last of the original line-up of the Dubliners to depart this earth.
But jitters on the Bourse, more from the presidential election campaign, serial murder in Essonne ... all without casting an eye around the world beyond France.
And what did Var-Matin choose to lead the paper? A question: are the Var's elected parliamentarians too old for the job?
I did not even notice until I'd already bought the paper and was standing at the supermarket cashier's till. There it was opposite me on the Var-Matin rack outside my friend Marie-Noelle's shop. I felt like putting my copy back.
It seems perverse to repeat what it was that made my confreres and consoeurs believe they had something worth spreading over pages one, two and three. Suffice to say that one member in two, good grief, is 65 or older.
Sorry to be so truculent but it just struck me as a complete non-story. Or is my objection just a function of age?
If my paper devotes three or more pages of tomorrow's edition to the life and times of the great resistant Raymond Aubrac, who has died at 97 (admittedly, not an event known about in time for any mention today), all will be forgiven. I am not holding my breath ...
ps Here we are, then, with respectable coverage but no more, with a news story about the death of ''the Resistance's last flame'', the last to have known Jean Moulin, who died in German hands (either murdered, possibly by Klaus Barbie, or by committing suicide after torture) and is revered as the symbol of French defiance of the Nazis, and a short background article.
** See also my friend Dumdad's posting about Raymond Aubrac at his blog, The Other Side of Paris.
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