The first in an occasional series that needs no explanation (I wondered about my elder daughter's assurance, after spending a couple of days at the Cannes film festival, about the story that certain UK journalists translated Violent Poison as Violent Fish, but can find no evidence that it appeared anywhere ...):
From today's Journal du Dimanche, reporting on the welcome release of the French student Clotilde Reiss by Iran, albeit on payment of what amounts to a ransom (a "fine" of 250,000 euros, plus at least the suspicion of prisoner exchange, for having sent home innocent mobile phone images of last year's anti-government protests) ...
..... un happy end .....
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