Quite often, France's coolness factor is wildy overrated abroad -- especially by many too-easily-impressed Americans. But whenever France is actually cool, it's very, very, very cool.
Today, for example, the daily Libération, didn't like the fact that the Mayor of Paris has censored Larry Clark's exhibit -- keeping minors out of Clark's show due to City Hall's fears of legal challenges (in France you can't show hardcore sexual images to minors). Therefore, to protest the decision, Libération printed a huge Clark photo, that one can not avoid to describe as X-rated, on their front page, denouncing the Mayor's choice.
(above, Larry Clark photographed by Terry Richardson)
Click below to find a link to the newspaper's front page.
To see the NFSW, repeat, Not Safe For Work, front page, click over to Libération front page.