"By moving it to New Orleans, I could keep the French element but make it something Americans can relate to".
Another French element in Mr. van Dam's singing, arguably, is the sense of the words as a guiding principle in the music.
Artists have found ways to press beyond the familiar colors and themes, and they continue to express the traditions rooted in Haiti's complex cultural and religious history, a blend of African, Caribbean and French elements.
It is perhaps one of Germany's most successful exports; the later addition of French elements giving it a flavour of luxury.
These orange trees are merely decoration and the oranges are not good to eat! Moroccan architecture is a rich mix of African and Islamic influences with some French elements and Art Deco thrown in.
That helped Mr. Vongerichten years later in developing his own blend of Southeast Asian and French elements, he said.
The English and French elements in the pidgin's lexicon (vocabulary) seem to be primarily borrowings into Chinook Jargon after it had become widely adopted as the lingua franca for the fur trade.
The hotel celebrates colorful, layered Moroccan design paired with Turkish and French elements.
"With the operation launched and coordinated with French elements in the region, the terrorists were intercepted at the Mali border and several of them were neutralised," Mr Juppe said.
He updates and reinvents his recipes by adding a few un-French elements, notably spices, to make, for example, a blanquette of veal infused with coriander or a steak au poivre with Sichuan peppercorns.
In February 2018, after considerable public outcry from Jewish organisations, who accused the criminal justice system of a cover-up, a French judge added the element of antisemitism to the charges against Traoré.
