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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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
Are you sure you're not in San Francisco Bay Area?
;-)
Posted by: deb | 06 November 2006 at 21:40
OK - I live in NYC (but not for much longer, since i moving to France the end of Nov with my frenchman)
BUT I HAVE TO KNOW WHERE YOU SAW THAT - AMERICA - EVERYONE HATES US NOW - SHIRT!!!! i have to have it - actually maybe i'll buy 5!! Just give me a vague idea and i'll track it down
those are hysterical!!
From Sedulia: Michelle, the t-shirts were in Virgin at Times Square.
Posted by: michellenyc | 06 November 2006 at 22:57
thanks for the location - i'll go by this week - i hope they have more
Posted by: michellenyc | 08 November 2006 at 00:23