Webb and a soldier she nicknamed Li'l Abner compared their scarred feet (his were worse) and, in French, discussed the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Napoleonic Wars.
Fouquet's and the yacht: even now, when the French discuss their contempt for Sarkozy the conversation tends to turn quickly back to the impression he made in those first few days after his election — the ostentation, the exclusivity, the strutting, nouveau-riche vulgarity.
Fouquet's and the yacht: even now, when the French discuss their contempt for Sarkozy the conversation tends to turn quickly back to the impression he made in those first few days after his election the ostentation, the exclusivity, the strutting, nouveau-riche vulgarity.
Terms like "Merdias" (blending "media" with "merde", meaning shit) and "journalopes" (blending journalists with "salope", meaning slut or bitch) have become relatively common when the French discuss their press online.
A panel of specialists, pediatricians and researchers experienced in the cross-cultural adaptation of instruments, fluent in French, discussed the divergences observed between the back-translation and the original French version in order to identify the difficulties emerged from the translation process.
"Imagine me at the age of 22 teaching 18-year-old girls French and discussing the Existentialists," he roars with laughter.
A French writer, discussing the Holy Year, pointed out that the Church long since discovered that man cannot live by bread alone and the Communists have more recently discovered that he cannot live without enough bread for all.
A French official, discussing Mr. Sarkozy's visit ahead of time, suggested that France was still refining specific ideas designed to buffer national economies against major shocks caused by currency fluctuations and the big influxes and outflows of investment.
On Sep. 18, Mr. Martin will give a talk at Columbia on "The F.B.I. and French Philosophers," discussing what happened when Hoover's G-men met France's leading Existentialists.
The Girl from the Fiction Department is a compelling and often touching account of a wretchedly unhappy life; and although Sonia Orwell must have been maddening at times - not least when she broke into French while discussing elevated or artistic matters - it's hard not to feel that she has been roughly treated.
