Fully four-fifths of the French tell pollsters that they think "things are getting worse".But the opening quotation, seemingly so apt for morose France today, is not about that country at all.
More typical are five young men who, in Senegalese-accented French, tell a familiar tale: no work in the village, went to the town, no work in the town, heading north.
Coch and French tell us in their report that the procedure used with Group #1, i.e., the no-participation group, was the usual one in the factory for introducing work changes.
A1 FRENCH TELL OF A PLOT -- A Frenchman of Algerian background has told French investigators that he was part of a plot by Osama bin Laden to blow up the American Embassy in Paris, a French official said.
The French tell you, as President Jacques Chirac told me when we talked at the Élysée last spring, that it begins with school, that "France" is an idea of citizenship, an identity forged in the neutral space of its public schools — in what Jules Ferry, the nineteenth-century father of French secular education, is said to have called the "école sanctuaire".
(Interpolation: In "The Artist," the French tell their country not to look back as the Americans do, and in "Midnight in Paris," the Americans tell their country not to look back as the French do, a dynamic that results in a very interesting inter-cultural relationship between these two films, but will not be explored here).
"It's done!" Ms. French told her family.
As French tells Jeremy Goldkorn in an interview at Danwei, "It's an achievement for China overall.
It's not your fault the British and the French told them to drop dead.
"They have this special knowledge, this special insight," French tells me.
Fully 34% of the French told an opinion poll last month that they agreed with the party's ideas.
