Nouvelles en provenance de France

Your Boulevardier has not formed an opinion on the impending divorce of Mr. Sarkozy, president of France. But in attempting to learn about the unblessed event, he came across a grand article on the president's exercise habits in the quirky and entertaining online newspaper The Morning News. The French president's penchant for jogging has, apparently, been greeted with some trepidation by some of his constituents. One complaint (and this is a paraphrase): His jogging shows that Mr. Sarkozy is not a Boulevardier.

On television, a French philosopher said, “Western civilization, in its best sense, was born with the promenade. Walking is a sensitive, spiritual act. Jogging is management of the body. The jogger says I am in control. It has nothing to do with meditation.”

The complete article, by one Rosecrans Baldwin, can be found here and is well worth reading.

Your Boulevardier will share his own peculiar reason for not trusting Mr. Sarkozy: that letter "k" in his name. It seems, somehow, not French. It was, for a while, one of Your Boulevardier's rules while traveling in France: never patronize an establishment with a "k" in its name, including the notorious and ubiquitous Quick Burger.