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Carnival of blogs # 9
Napoleon is out ? – Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the greatest Frenchmen of them all? A TV series asks the question in an ongoing series that has French people vote for the most important Frenchman or French woman. According to Joe Hanley from the Guardian, the series is based on a British series and the results are quite baffling. Who would have thoiught Napoleon, of all Frenchmen would be one of the first to get the boot?
Missing Penpal from Chateaubriant,Please Help!!!
Hi Im looking for a girl that goes by the name of Corinne and lived in 147 Rue De La ******* in Chateaubriant area. She came with a tour group one summer to Athlone,Ireland between 1992-95 and we became penpals when she arrived back in France but lost contact over the years. She would be in her late 20’s prob 27 or 28 yrs old and had black hair.I know its not much info but its all i can give and hopefully someone knows this girl or maybe travelled to Athlone in the summer during those years. Any info would be great.
Thanks
Bonjour mes amis
Bonjour tous le monde,
Un jeune homme,egyptien,19 ans.
J’aime le francais beaucoup,je veux trouver des amis francais ou qui parlent francais(soit jeunes ou filles) pour ameliorer mon niveau au francais.
Grand aurevoir d’Egypte.
French pen-pal ?
Should someone look for a pen-pals in France, let’s send me an e-mail at chasnans @ hotmail.com with pen-pals in tittle ( not to be considered as spam ) and i’ll gladly answear.
My interresest are rather wide, beginning from history, classic music, to computer science, RPG, F1…
My favorite music band : Pink Floyds (ze wall of course, atomic heart mother, dark side of the moon…) and U2.
France scraps youth job law, bowing to mass unrest
PARIS (Reuters) – French In a televised statement, Villepin said he regretted that weeks of strikes and protests showed the CPE could not be applied but gave no details about his own political future, on the line over his handling of the dispute.
President Jacques Chirac on Monday scrapped a planned youth job law that provoked weeks of protests, in a climbdown opponents celebrated as an unqualified victory.
The move was a personal blow to Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, who had championed the First Job Contract (CPE) and seen his popularity slump with the mass opposition and unrest.
Louis XVI's execution
I understand that Louis XVI’s execution actually took some time because the blade of the guillotine stopped HALFWAY DOWN HIS NECK AND THREE PEOPLE HAD TO PUSH IT DOWN.
Is that true?
I know decapitation isn’t all it’s made out to be, because you are still alive for at least a few minutes afterward (as made evident during the Reign of Terror), but WOW!
French man ready to help you to improve your french
Bonjour,
si vous désirez pratiquer et améliorer votre français vous pouvez m’ ajouter à votre liste de contact (sur msn messenger).
beunoix@hotmail.com
A bientôt.
Benoit.
Chirac to sign France's job law
But in an address to the nation, Mr Chirac promised to modify two of the law’s most controversial clauses.
He pledged to shorten from two years to one the period in which youths could be fired – and said employers would have to give a reason for the dismissal.
The law, known as the CPE, makes it easier for employers to hire and fire people under the age of 26.
It is not clear if Mr Chirac’s decision will stop the protests, says the BBC’s Caroline Wyatt in Paris.
booking Thalys tickets via Internet – help needed!
Hi all!
We need to book tickets for Paris-Amsterdam Thalys train. The problem is that we are not in Europe and have no idea how it works in practice (I mean, how to get the booked tickets at the railway station)
If someone has relevant experience, pls tell us a few words about it (print&go option is not available for this direction and we deffinitely cannot receive the tickets by post)
Thanks a lot!
travel during employment law protest
Is Paris safe to travel with employment law protest going on?