Down with the heretics!
La Redoute, the reknowned retailer and largest mail-order catalog in France, has run into a bit of trouble…. with the pious few that still go to church here in France.
The company has stopped sales of a necklace featured in their catalog after receiving a dozen angry phone calls from customers who screamed “blasphemy!”. The necklace portrayed a small crowned skull with the name “Corpus Christi” engraved across it. According to a spokesman for La Redoute, the company also received SIX angry e-mails.
Hold up my little hellions. What is more amusing here? The fact that the skull/crown motif is so old it is now a faux-pas? Or the fact that La Redoute actually listened to less than 20 people (no doubt provincial grand-meres) and withdrew the product?!
Guess they didn’t want to end up like Jeanne d’Arc.
