The whole French relationship to America -- and with it the relationship of America to Europe and the United Nations Security Council, where France plays pivotal roles -- has been put into play in the Iraq crisis, and the French know it.
The publisher and its writers often had what the agent Andrew Wylie disapprovingly calls "a traditional French relationship"; French publishers tend to buy world rights and to offer the kind of business counsel that an agent offers an author.
Another film in competition, is the French relationship drama Mon Roi (My King).
In the real world, however, adultery creates pyrotechnics in French relationships, just like it does in other relationships, and it remains among the number one cause for divorce in France.
THE recent arrest in New York of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, then the head of the International Monetary Fund, has caused some people to question the American-French relationship.
But it is already intriguing, plus its exploration of the complex Anglo-French relationship, the entente not always totally cordial, adds something.
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell openly suggested that the French government had been influenced by its long history of "commercial relationships" with Iraq, and that in the short term, the American-French relationship had been damaged.
The dependence of the standard potentials at 25°C on the dielectric constant of the media (in the light of the Born equation), the volume fraction (Φw) and the mole fraction (Nw) of water (based on Feakins-French relationship) have been examined.
The midinettes who traditionally enliven all Parisian crowds and their more recent sisters the "dactylos" had a good glimpse of what was officially called the "London Look," and if it convinced them that not all Englishwomen always wear heavy tweeds and shooting sticks - well, something may have been done towards cementing Anglo-French relationships.
Between Armstrong and the French, the relationship can be complicated.
Here – with Stuart, Aurelie, Peter and Joe – he also acts as nurse, visitor, friend, liaison officer, Guys and Dolls singalong partner, French speaker, relationship adviser, awkward hugger/back-rubber, therapist, Therouxpist … It sure as hell works, though.
