You won't get to see the video; it was taken down faster than a…well, let's not answer possibly offensive with possibly also offensive. (But you have to admit, the list of French things that could be taken down quickly is virtually limitless, and most likely very funny to everybody but the French.)
Reportedly, the video, produced by ChaufferDeBuzz, "lingers on - the physical merits of the female participants in the conference…Shots of women who don’t know they’re being filmed walking away, talking on the phone, eating, scowling at the camera, plus giggling and reading out cue cards with the name of the startup which made it, with voyeuristic zoom shots of bums and so on" with Sean Kingston's "Beautiful Girls" playing in the background. (Description courtesy of
One of the women apparently in the video, perhaps a French one, bless her heart, didn't seem to mind. Livia LaColare, who posted the now-defunct YouTube video on While Livia is obviously fine with it, public relations blogger "His mistake is compounded by the fact that he quite correctly identifies that one of the main failings of Le Web 3 is that there were far too few women speaking and attending. Is this sleazy video by a 'buzz market' firm really going to help him improve it next year?" Well, regardless of its effects on recruiting women, Le Meur was quick to act, deleting the video from Le Web in general and apologizing to Jemima Kiss out of what appears to be the Christmas spirit. I guess Christmas spirit is what you call that.
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