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** French would like to have american penpals **
Hi !
My name is Virginie, i’m 22 and i’m from Paris, FRANCE.
I like soo much USA !! (but i only seen USA in books or at TV) and my dream is to visit USA.
So, i’m looking for an american penpal how like France as i like USA.
My english is not excellent but i think that you’ll be able to understand me and i hope that you speack little sentences in French
I like Internet, Pets, USA, Cartoons, Volleyball, ………
but my favorite hobbie is to photograph Paris
So, i would like to meet somebody from Usa, because i really want to know American culture, American food, American traditions, ……… all about USA !!!
So, if you want to speack with me, write me at vinnye@wanadoo.fr ( or vinnye95@hotmail.com for Mensenger)
U.S. takes opposite tack from France in head scarf debate
The hallways of Benjamin Franklin Science Academy in quiet Muskogee, Oklahoma, are far from those of the tough, lower-class Paris suburbs where the battle was fought over the right of Muslim girls to wear head scarves required by their religion.
Queen embarks on state visit to France
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The Queen today left Waterloo station on Eurostar to begin her three-day state visit to France.
Accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, and 200 British children, she began the centenary celebrations of the Entente Cordiale by naming one of the trains after Anglo-French pact.
The children are participating in a Franco-British Education agreement signed last year.
Ethics Thread:
This is a thread I am creating where anyone can report Name Calling, smearing, Hostile remarks (without backing), etc.
This is not for reporting people just because they’re radical.
I think people have complained about this and in order to have better Dialogue we need to keep such things out. We need to save this from being an Ego forum.
After someone posts a hostile name calling quote, we will all just comment about how revolting the quote is until he recants.
(I am not some type of admin and if I am in violation of any rules please tell me)
French Penpal Wanted
I’m an 18 year college guy who is trying to learn French on his own, looking for a female penpal who knows French and French culture, preferably someone who is actually French. If interested please write to ucancallme_cue@hotmail.com. Thanks,
Cue
Chirac puts rival Sarkozy into the reform hot seat
President Jacques Chirac shook up his cabinet last night as he struggled to restore the French people’s faith in his reform programme. The reshuffle became inevitable after the Right’s electoral drubbing on Sunday in which it lost control of all but one French mainland region.
The key post of finance minister went to Nicolas Sarkozy, the interior minister and M Chirac’s main rival in his own camp. He will be asked to implement the economic reforms blamed by most commentators for bringing the Right to its knees.
Failure could take the shine off M Sarkozy’s poll ratings, which show him to be the most popular politician in France, while success could easily help M Chirac.
French Novelist Robert Merle Dies at 95
Robert Merle, who won France’s highest literary honor and wrote the novel that inspired Mike Nichols’ movie “The Day of the Dolphin,” has died. He was 95.
Merle died Saturday at his home in the Yvelines region outside Paris, his publisher, Editions de Fallois, said.
His first novel, “Week-end a Zuydcoote,” (“Weekend in Zuydcoote”) was set during the Allied forces’ evacuation from Dunkirk during World War II. It won the 1949 Goncourt, the country’s most prestigious literary award, and was later made into a movie starring Jean-Paul Belmondo.
Another novel, “Un Animal doué de raison,” (“The Day of the Dolphin”), inspired Nichols’ 1973 film starring George C. Scott as a scientist who trains talking dolphins.
Prime minister gets 2nd chance
President Jacques Chirac of France reappointed his prime minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, on Tuesday but told him to form a new government after a crushing defeat in regional elections.
Chirac’s office said that Raffarin had tendered the government’s resignation and that the president had accepted it.
Then “he named Jean-Pierre Raffarin prime minister and charged him with forming a new government,” said a presidential statement.
The makeup of the new government would be announced Wednesday and the new cabinet would meet Friday morning, Chirac’s office said. That meeting may force Chirac to shorten a visit to Russia planned for Thursday and Friday.