[French President Nicolas Sarkozy's order to deport Gypsies was put in motion yesterday, with the expulsion of nearly 100 Roma from the country. France paid them about $385 each to "voluntarily leave." Image via AP]

French President Nicolas Sarkozy apparently doesn't like Gypsies.

Almost 200 years ago, Haiti (Saint-Dominigue) had to pay the equivalent of nearly €17 billion to France for an "independence debt" because of the money France lost after the slave revolt. Some people want France to pay it back.

Police in Paris are looking for two young women who robbed a man at an ATM machine by flashing their breasts: "As he stared at one, the other then withdrew 300 euros" from the man's account. [Telegraph, via]

[Fashion person Karl Lagerfeld and model Baptiste Giabiconi take a stroll in St. Tropez. The woman in the back will return to her small Ohio hometown with some truly amazing pictures. Photo via Splash.]

A French tourist slipped off the edge of the Grand Canyon while taking pictures and fell 75 feet. But he survived! Now he has a great story to tell, and "Falling Into the Grand Canyon" has a Yelp review. [AP]

How do people in France and Britain see each other? According to a new poll, the French think Brits are "not good at" cooking, love, and dressing. Brits polled said the French are only good at "going on strike."

French president Nicolas Sarkozy envies the size of Barack Obama's big ass presidential airplane, Air Force One, so much that he ordered a bigger plane, nicknamed Air Sarko One, for €176 million. Carla Bruni will be most impressed.

Model, singer, and first lady of France Carla Bruni is a magnificent specimen. We're glad we finally found her weakness: acting. Apparently it took her 35 tries to get her simple scene in the new Woody Allen movie right.

Dominique Cottrez of France has confessed to suffocating eight newborns and burying them in her backyard. The mother of two says she didn't want more children but didn't want to take the pill either.

A couple was arrested after the bodies of eight newborn babies were uncovered in France, some buried in the garden of a home that was recently sold. The case is the latest in a string of similar crimes in France.

[Someone applauds the necessity of a bike lane as the racers in the 15th leg of the Tour de France ride through Pamiers today. Image via AP]

[The pack passes a lavender field near Sisteron during the 11th stage of the Tour de France. You know, the bicycle race. Pic via AP]

[French President Nicolas Sarkozy kisses his wife Carla Bruni during Bastille Day celebrations in Paris. Bastille Day, or Quatorze Juillet, is like the Fourth of July, but in France. And on the 14th. Pic via AP]

French non-Muslim people are very scared of Muslims: France's lower house of parliament has "overwhelmingly" approved a ban on face-covering veils that only 1,900 French Muslim women wear anyway. The French simply do not care for clothing-related civil liberties.

The World Cup is almost over. We won't know who technically won until after tomorrow's final. But like a human Paul the Octopus, Zach Dundas, author of the book The Renegade Sportsman, already knows who really won the tournament.

Yesterday we heard about a supposed McDonald's fast food heir who was viciously beaten and robbed in France. But today there are reports that Geoffrey McDonald may not actually be one of those McDonalds.

A pack of robbers armed with baseball bats beat and robbed 60-year-old Geoffrey McDonald (of the McFlurry McDonalds) and his wife in their villa in the south of France. Why did they have a villa there?

If Bill O'Reilly was upset about a harmless gay-themed French commercial for McDonalds just wait until he sees this insane spot for Orangina where a humanoid mountain lion shaves and then embraces his gay lover. Um, what?

Sex criminal Nicolas Cocaign is on trial for beating his prison cellmate, stabbing him with a pair of scissors, cutting him open, popping out a rib, ripping out a lung, and eating it with a side of fried onions.