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26, Male, Pennsylvania, looking for a penpal
My name is Jerome, I’m 26 and male, and looking for a French penpal. I’m not fluent in the langauge, but can understand it a little. I guess I’m also looking to improve it. Any region from France is nice. I understand France to be beautiful all around. So to that degree, I’m not partial to any one region, but like them all. If anyone is interested, please do reply.
practice french s'il vous plait
Bonjour
i am a teenage girl taking AS french at college and would like to practice my french skills by emailing to someone in french (and english).if you need help on your french or english skills i would love to help too.
merci beaucoup
Zoe
xxx
MY PARIS TRIP EXPERIENCE!
Hello, Everyone. First, I would like to say thanks again for all the information and advice during my preparation to visit Paris. It became a must need in many ways. I entered France with great respect for its people and I was received with respect. I quickly learned to slow down and be patient to be sure not to miss the subtle pleasures of this country and its people. I tried to recognize sincerity and look for kindness; giving everyone the benefit of the doubt. With this state of mind, it was indeed a pleasure to visit such a grand country. France is rich with so much history.
I will update you all later with the details of my visit.
Hunt for 'Code' clues in France
Along the Grand Gallery of the Louvre, not even one dead curator sprawls on the museum’s famous parquet floor.
And in the hayloft of a chateau outside Paris, the secret listening post just isn’t there.
Yet even if they can’t find all the details mentioned in the book, fans of “The Da Vinci Code” seem to have an insatiable need to link the fiction to reality — especially at the Louvre, where the opening murder scene takes place.
Jacque le Roux, an art historian and Louvre tour guide, happily sets straight the implausibilities in the murder mystery — including one in the first paragraph, where the victim is described as a 76-year-old curator.
Everyone knows the mandatory retirement age in France is 65, he says.
Could use some help please…
Hi everyone!
I found this site a couple weeks ago and I love it! I am slowly but surely trying to plan my wedding in France for May 2005. We’d like to go for around 21 days. We are from Vancouver, Canada. There will be us and 2 other couples (both dads). We really want to go to Normandy and Paris but other than that we are open to suggestions. If anyone has any good ideas please let me know. We need a lot of info like: where’s the best place to get married, rent or lease a car, hotels or rent a house, travel by train or car, cheaper to travel from Canada to London then Chunnel to France, where else should we go???? We have a very tight budget and the cheaper the better but no hostels or anything. Thanks so much for taking time to read this, Sandra
French court recognises gay couple as parents
A gay couple have been formally recognised as parents by the French state, setting a precedent that could eventually apply to an estimated 200,000 children living in homosexual families in France.
Carla and Marie-Laure, and their daughters Giulietta, 10, Luana, seven, and Zelina, five, have been declared one family by the French courts – the first family with parents of the same sex to be officially endorsed.
French winegrowers puzzled by vandalism
Winegrowers in northeast France are puzzled over the mysterious destruction of large swaths of two vineyards in Alsace, a region along the German border known for full-bodied white wines.
Saboteurs using long-handled pruning shears destroyed about 2,800 grape vines in the past two weeks by slashing their stems close to the soil, the director of the Alsace Wine Growers Association said Friday.
“We don’t really know who could have done this, whether it’s the work of a lunatic – or if it’s a settling of scores,” Jean-Paul Goulby said. “It’s very strange.”
The value of the damage is difficult to estimate, Goulby said, because future crops must be taken into account.
French town is named historic Civil War site
American cannon blasts bellowed in the English Channel 140 years ago, and bloodied bodies lined the deck of a sinking Confederate ship. Onlookers watched in horror from the Normandy coast.
On June 19, 1864, far from battlefields at home, the USS Kearsarge hunted down and sank a dreaded Confederate raider in one of the most important naval battles of the U.S. Civil War — off the coast of France.
The Confederate ship Alabama today lies where it sank under 198 feet of swirling currents about seven nautical miles off the French town of Cherbourg.
French Novelist Francoise Sagan Dead
French novelist Francoise Sagan, known for her haunting novel, Bonjour Tristesse, died Friday at the age of 69.
The Agence France-Presse news agency reported Ms. Sagan died in a hospital in the Normandy town of Honfleur Friday evening. The news agency cited cardio-respiratory problems as the cause of death.
Doctors said the novelist had been admitted several times in recent months to the hospital, which was near her home.
Ms. Sagan catapulted to fame as a teenager, with her first novel Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness). The bittersweet work depicted life of French bourgeois society at its most sophisticated and cynical. Ms. Sagan came from the same upper class surroundings that she wrote about.