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    The USA are entirely the creation of the accursed race, the French.

       --Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), writing to Nancy Mitford, 22 May 1957

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Today the cheminots are:


  • "À nous de vous faire préférer le train!"
    "Voyager autrement"
    "Avec le SNCF, tout est possible"
      --Former ad slogans of the SNCF (French national trains), each in turn quickly dropped

Fun French words

  • ouistiti

    (literally: marmoset)
    Etymology: onomatopoeia from the sound a marmoset makes. Actual meaning: this is what you say in France when you want people to smile for the camera.

    Selon une étude réalisée par le fabricant d’appareils photo Nikon, le « ouistiti » utilisé en France au moment de se faire prendre en photo est le petit mot le plus efficace pour s’assurer un joli sourire.

Who's en colère today?

  • Private sector

    First strike in 43 years at an aeronautics company in Toulouse, Latécoère


    Public sector

    The SNCF (toujours eux), regional train employees in the Lyons area guaranteeing unpleasant travel from the 17th-21st December
    Also yet another strike by Sud-Rail, a particularly truculent SNCF union in the south of France, this time five days in January: 6,7, 21, 22 and 23. "We have no choice." Right.

    Marseilles trams on strike until February

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The video that annoys: Ségolène Royal

Segolene_video Ségolène Royal is in trouble after a widely circulated video filmed secretly that shows her addressing a Socialist Party meeting in Anger last January. She says that she is in favor of the 35-hour work week... for public-school teachers in collège [junior high]! As she says this, you can see the people sitting next to her look surprised and exchanging words. Why? Because the teachers currently work 17 hours a week.

10 November 2006 in France |

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Actually, that should be amended to "teachers are currently paid for 17 hours a week." If teachers were actually paid for all the work they do outside of the classroom, including research, lesson plans, grading, meetings with colleagues and parents, then maybe they would actually be compensated for well over 35 hours a week!

Sorry for the rant; being married to a teacher and related to many more, I'm a little sensitive about this subject! :)

Posted by: Vivi | 11 November 2006 at 19:33

Vivi, you beat me to it. I was about to say exactly the same thing (only in my case, I would have written "shacked up with" rather than "married to").

And they're even not very well paid for it, either.

Posted by: Stuart Mudie | 12 November 2006 at 20:07

Hundreds of positive videos of Ségolène Royal at http://segovideo.com

Posted by: Charbax | 13 November 2006 at 20:06

Hi,

Segolène as claimed that the truth about this video was that she was talking about the fact that she was prefering that teachers were paid to make extra-hours in public school (with extra money) instead of private lessons institutions.

For me, this shows that she doesn't know well the school even if she has been minister in charge of national education, because usually, the teachers that are giving private lessons, are not much than those wich have failled to the examination to became a teacher in public school.

The others usually havn't much time for this.

Regards,

Flip

Posted by: flip | 14 November 2006 at 19:37

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  • In Paris, the purest virtue is the object of the filthiest slander.

      –Honoré Balzac (1799-1850), in Scènes de la vie privée

    À Paris, la vertu la plus pure est l'objet des plus sales calomnies.

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