Il y a longtemps que notre pays est beau mais rude.
--Newspaper editor Olivier Séguret, 25 January 2012
The USA are entirely the creation of the accursed race, the French.
--Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), writing to Nancy Mitford, 22 May 1957
(crazy; crazy about something) Etymology: possibly from the sound of a bell ringing.
L’appel à la prière a lieu cinq fois par jour et la première semaine, ça vous rend dingue ! Puis soudain, ça pénètre votre esprit et c’est la plus belle des belles choses.
--Liam Neeson quoted in an article about how he learned to love the muezzin's call to prayer in Istanbul
Strike and demonstration by Alcatel-Lucent employees on Friday 10 February
Air France workers, striking against a new proposed law that requires them to give 48 hours advance notice of their absence in case of strike. They want the passengers to be miserable at last-minute cancellations of their long-planned-and-paid-for travel, because that is how these public employees get what they want.
Nationwide strike of labor inspectors angry over a suicide
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At lunch we were talking about the sad case of the rabbit Black.
Black was a rabbit who lived in a CE2 classroom (third grade) at a school in our neighborhood. At each holiday he would be casé (lodged) chez one of the families of the children in the class.
But Hélène, the teacher, suspected that Black was not always lucky in his choice of families.
"After Christmas Black came back to class as a much smaller, gentler rabbit."
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They are taking faith and crushing it. Why? Why? When you marginalize faith in America, when you remove the pillar of God given rights then what’s left? The French Revolution. What’s left is a government that gives you rights. What’s left are no unalienable rights. What’s left is a government that will tell you who you are, what you’ll do and when you’ll do it. What’s left in France became the guillotine.
--Rick Santorum, candidate for the Republican presidential nomination who just won three primaries, on Wednesday
Huge strikes underway in Greece as protestors complain about government austerity measures, which are required immediately in order for the Greek government to be able to borrow money from other countries to pay its bills and not go bankrupt in weeks.
Keith Eckstein also has a new book review site, Books About France
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