Setting up your Broadband connection in France

Setting up your Broadband connection in France in the Technically Speaking column for French Week issue 4.

Laurence Gardner: Alternative historian whose work helped inspire Dan Brown

Obituary of Laurence Gardner in The Independent by Marcus Williamson

Robert Natkin: Abstract painter whose work is remembered for its intimacy and deceptive serenity

Obituary of Robert Natkin in The Independent by Marcus Williamson

David Warren: Inventor and developer of the 'black box' flight data recorder

Obituary of David Warren in The Independent by Marcus Williamson

French Week

A first for France: a weekly in English

France's first English-language weekly came out on Friday July 30th 2010 and will be on sale every Friday. It is for all those who still love the feel of a real newspaper and want to keep abreast of French affairs, news and culture.

French Week is independently owned so its main journalists can offer robust and unfettered views of French affairs. Editor Miranda Neame has lived and worked in France since her late teens, spending the past 15 years in publishing. News editor Robert Harneis is a seasoned observer of French and European affairs; he has published a biography of Ségolène Royal and translated Nicholas Sarkozy's best-seller 'Témoignage' into English.

French Week's 50 or so bilingual correspondents, all well-implanted around France, will be delving into the country's politics, administration, arts and lifestyle. The aims: to help French and English speakers understand each other; to get to the nitty-gritty of readers' concerns and to whet the curiosity of all residents and lovers of France.

Andrei Voznesensky: Poet who fought against artistic censorship in the Soviet Union

Obituary of Andrei Voznesensky in The Independent by Marcus Williamson

Peter Orlovsky: Beat poet and life partner of Allen Ginsberg

Obituary of Peter Orlovsky in The Independent by Marcus Williamson

Ed Roberts: Pioneering electronics engineer who built the first widely available home computer

Obituary of Ed Roberts in The Independent by Marcus Williamson

Ernst Beyeler: Charismatic and influential art dealer who co-founded the Art Basel Fair

Obituary of Ernst Beyeler in The Independent by Marcus Williamson

Bruno Gironcoli: Sculptor celebrated for his monumental designs and distorted outsize replics of everyday objects

Obituary of Bruno Gironcoli in The Independent by Marcus Williamson

Charis Wilson: Model and writer who became muse and collaborator for the photographer Edward Weston

Obituary of Charis Wilson in The Independent by Marcus Williamson

Kenneth Noland

Kenneth Noland was an American painter best known for his large-scale canvases, geometric figures and expanses of flat colour. Noland's "colour field" paintings, first seen in 1950s, were an example of what the art critic Clement Greenberg termed "post painterly abstraction".

Jeanne-Claude: Artist celebrated with her husband Christo for the pair's large-scale public artworks

Obituary of Jeanne-Claude in The Independent by Marcus Williamson

Sarane Alexandrian: French art historian, poet and right-hand man to André Breton

Obituary of Sarane Alexandrian in The Independent by Marcus Williamson

John Michell: Expert on ancient knowledge and pioneer of the New Age

Obituary of John Michell in The Independent by Marcus Williamson

Helen Levitt: Photographer renowned for her portraits of street life in New York

Obituary of Helen Levitt in The Independent by Marcus Williamson

Inger Christensen: Experimental poet

Obituary of Inger Christensen in The Independent by Marcus Williamson

Claude Berri: Film director and screenwriter best known for 'Jean de Florette' and 'Manon des Sources'

Obituary of Claude Berri in The Independent by Geoffrey MacNab, with additional notes on Claude Berri as an art collector by Marcus Williamson

Jacques Piccard: Oceanographer and pioneer of deep-sea exploration

Obituary of Jacques Piccard in The Independent by Marcus Williamson

Publication of The True Celtic Language and the Stone Circle of Rennes-les-Bains

Publication of The True Celtic Language and the Stone Circle of Rennes-les-Bains (1886), by Abbé Henri Boudet, translated from the French by Marcus Williamson and Corella Hughes.

Review by Stella Maris