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It’s no surprise that the Swedish Academy awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for literature to a Frenchman, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. After all, Horace Engdahl, the permanent secretary of the Academy, noted just recently that Europe is “the center of the literary world” and claimed that American writers are far too insular, brainwashed by their own cannibalizing pop culture to produce any literature worthy of the Nobel Prize. Not since Toni Morrison nabbed the honor in 1993, it seems, has an author from our shores been...
Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympics, conceived of the Games as a global melding of body, will and mind. His ambitions were grand, but the Frenchman's worldview barely extended beyond Europe. In the 1896 inaugural Olympics, only 14 nations competed. Not a single Asian country was invited...
...When I looked around at the other dating sites, they were all so boring and sad," says Simoncini, 45, a suave, slightly somber Frenchman. "I said, my site's going to be much more fun. People aren't going there to get married; they're going to meet someone. Everyone hopes it's The One, but if it isn't, that's maybe not so bad. Meetic is like a bar - the biggest bar in the world...
...wish Barack Obama luck - if it's him, France will be very happy," Sarkozy responded to a question asking whether his ebullient praise of Obama was an endorsement. Referring to his initial 2006 meeting with Obama in Washington while Sarkozy was preparing his run for the French presidency, the Frenchman recalled, "There were just the two of us in the room, and one became President. Now it's up to the other to do likewise...
...Frenchman named Philippe Petit, aided by a slightly fractious team of co-conspirators, sneakily managed to string a wire between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center, 1350 feet above the ground. At 7:15 that morning he stepped out on the wire and danced and pranced on it for something like an hour before the cops nabbed...