Word: francoise
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More than that, it was a setback for a nation in dire need of a victory - a defeat that has driven France a little deeper into one of its periodic bouts of self-doubt. "I think I can say without chauvinism that we had the best bid," said Jean-Francois...
Suntanned but in a stormy mood, 490 Deputies of the French National Assembly last week left their vacation villas and returned to Paris at the bidding of Socialist President Francois Mitterrand. The summons came two days after France's legislative review panel rejected as unconstitutional part of a plan to...
The last time Haitian voters participated in a national referendum was in 1971, when Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier was confirmed as the successor to his much feared father, Dictator Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier. Last week Baby Doc was back with a referendum intended to satisfy the U.S. that Haiti...
"I didn't want at all to do something realistic,? says David B. ?I was not interested in making a reconstruction of the events. I prefer to tell my feelings." Born Pierre-Francois Beauchard near Orleans, France in 1959, and now living in Paris, Beauchard began working on "Epileptic" in...
"Epileptic" mostly takes place during the late 60s and into the 70s, a time before MRIs and a greater awareness of brain disease. Faced with a medical establishment that could do little but shrug its shoulders, the Beauchard family explores every remote cure, from macrobiotics to mediums to exorcism. "I...