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The Flag of France: Tricolore
The national flag of France, more commonly known as the Tricolore (Tricolour), features three equal vertical bands coloured blue (hoist side), white and red. It first appeared during the French Revolution and was a combination of the colours of the coat of arms of Paris (red and blue) and the royal colour (white), with the combination often being credited to the Marquis de Lafayette.
How to love a French man?
I have found a French man who loves me very much and I think I like me also but I’m an Asian girl… I don’t know how be with him… Can somebody advise me, thanks.
Brgds
Stendhal
Marie-Henri Beyle (January 23, 1783 – March 23, 1842), better known as Stendhal, was a 19th century French writer.
Born in Grenoble, France, he had a miserable childhood in stifling provincial France but blossomed in the military and theatrical worlds of the First French Empire. He travelled extensively in Germany and visited Russia (as part of Napoleon’s army), but formed a particular attachment to Italy, where he spent much of the remainder of his career, serving as French consul and writing.
Powell: France has annoyed me
Calling the French a proud people with “strong views,” U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell admitted France has annoyed him at times — and he has been just as annoying to them.
“They have been with us through thick and thin. They were with us when we fought for our independence 229 years ago. But we have had disagreements with the French,” he told Philadelphia’s WPHT radio on Wednesday.
Seeking English or American people for penpals
Hello,
My mame is Pierre and I would like to improve my English.
e mail : pierre_duron@yahoo.fr
France probes Muslim leader for anti-Semitic remarks
Mohamed Latreche, who led a Paris protest last Saturday against a planned ban on Muslim headscarves in state schools, branded Israel a racist country and equated Zionism with apartheid in a speech to the marchers.
France Loses Its Head Over Headscarves
Ten thousand people, mostly Muslim women, marched in protest through Paris on Saturday. Similar demonstrations by Muslim women took place in other cities in Europe and the Middle East. Two thousand people turned out in Stockholm, 2,400 in London, 2,500 in Beirut, 300 in Nablus, about 100 in Washington, D.C. A typical chant: “My scarf, my choice.”
The demonstrators were protesting the French proposal to ban all “conspicuous” religious garb of students in its public schools, including the headscarves of Muslim women and girls, yarmulkes and crosses “of manifestly excessive dimension.” The purpose, French President Jacques Chirac says, is the protection of French secularism.
France eases rift with United States
France is ready to open a new chapter in its strained relations with the United States but without changing any of its foreign policy objectives, government officials say.
A series of official comments and news analyses point to a strong desire to end the sniping that has marred the trans-Atlantic relationship for most of last year.
Left Bank Hotel
Has anyone stayed at the Hotel des Grandes Ecoles near the Pantheon? I’ve read great things and not so great things.
French penpal I need, would you like to be one?
Salut tout le monde!
Je suis Alicja et j’habite en Pologne, a Varsovie. Moi, j’adore le francais, la France. Mon reve, c’est apprendre le francais plus, (puisque je ne parle pas bien
) et trouver qqn qui sera mon "e-friend". Qui voudrait m’aider?
mon e-mail: hoiko@wp.pl