The following year he signed Bill 22, which made French the official language of the province and limited the use of English.
"But as of today, the only place there is such a big loss is in the U.S". French exports to the United States are already suffering from a weak American economy and the dollar's diminished value against the euro, which makes French products more expensive for Americans.
No wonder our proud defenders of the noble French language view text messages as a redoubtable enemy.Hervé ClaretLyonSIR – As a Brit who has lived in France for 15 years and who has been married to a French woman for 39 years there is another factor which makes the French averse to using text messaging: verbosity.Michael ThomsonTrouville-sur-mer, France.
All of which makes the French seem weird about Wednesday.
The contract for the new trains went to a consortium of Alstom, in Paris, and Bombardier, in Montreal, which makes the French TGV.
But the marriage is now under considerable strain, and France is very much on the defensive, not just because of the endless euro crisis, which is now undermining its southern European allies Spain and Italy, but because of the growing weakness of the French economy as well, which makes the French-German couple less than equal.
But they may not have reckoned with the peculiarities of French politics, which make VW's behaviour seem almost unimaginably radical.
He switched from journalism to politics in 1978 primarily to campaign against proposals by the separatist Parti Québécois, which controlled the provincial government, to make French the province's only official language.
His trust in France and lack of political foresight brought about a defeat for Italy in the Treaty of Bardo (1881), which made Tunisia a French protectorate.
Already, sales in the United States have been dropping because of an economic slowdown and the weak dollar, which makes euro-denominated French exports more expensive.
