Word: aise
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Laurence Wylie, 69, may be the only French-language teacher who starts his classes with a hard round of calisthenics. That tactic follows, with precise Gallic logic, from his basic premise: le français, in fact all language, is spoken mostly with the body. Says Wylie, a retired professor of...
As explosive as the blast itself was a bomb of a question: Who had pulled off the nuclear sabotage? An environmental organization calling itself Groupe des Écologistes Français claimed responsibility. No one had ever heard of the group before the explosion, and French authorities dismissed its claims...
Giorgio Laurent!, 33, worked for his Italian family's thriving manufacturing concern in Milan before deciding that his future lay in the U.S. With his German-born wife Iris, Countess zu Dohna-Lauck, 28, he moved to New York in 1974 and started a real estate investment concern that...
Of the 20 senior ministers named by Giscard, 15 had sat in the previous government. Among those remaining in place: Premier Raymond Barre, who had been appointed the previous week; Justice Minister Alain Peyrefitte, author of the bestselling Le Mai Français (The French Sickness); Health Minister Simone Veil...
Why separatism? Why now? For the Parti Québécois, the answer is simple logic: a people with a common language, customs and culture should "naturally" form a nation-state. That conviction has been nourished by a sudden, popular expansion of French pride, in which Quebec became, if not a...