Novelist Sarah Hall, who has twice been in the running for the prize, also joins the the panel alongside Lila Azam Zanganeh, a US-based literary critic of Iranian French background, whose first book, The Enchanter, was an unconventional homage to Nabokov.
Before the Indigenous woman, of Cree and French background, went to her first day of school, she'd been physically and sexually abused.
And yet, not only has Dumont made a comedy, it's also genuinely funny and surprisingly knockabout – while still unmistakably the work of an artist who habitually mines his own northern French background for images of humanity's savage side.
In order to estimate the loss of life years associated with being HIV-infected, we compared life expectancies of the HIV-infected population with the French background population.
"My French background, this is where all of these techniques are coming from," he said.
At least one of the attackers has been uncovered as having some French background.
Most of the top chefs in the UK come from Italian, French background.
Due to his mother's French background, he spoke both French and English at home.
There was the English text of Shakespeare himself, but we also made use of Hindi and of French, the backgrounds of the people involved.
But now, as prominent public figures like Rossignol rail against the headscarf, others have wondered whether the stigmatizing effects of this debate, often maintained by supposedly left-wing secularists, may also be a factor in the radicalization of a small but significant number of French citizens of Muslim background.
