Word: frenchmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...paperback last week for $1.50, has become something of a boondoggler's bible. The report names no names and initiates no punitive action, but the mere threat of publication has been known to bring straying functionaries back into line. If nothing else, the booklet serves to remind Frenchmen of the flimflamming-and foolishness -of their civil servants. Some of the cases cited this year...
...gross that Napoleon III personally ordered it torn down. The Emperor told Haussmann: "I want big umbrellas. Nothing more." The baron told Baltard to try iron, and this time he caught the spirit. The grace of what marketmen ever afterward called their "parasols" has enchanted generations of Frenchmen...
...behind the EEC's high agricultural-levy system. Almost equally important is a premonition that many of the best things about Britain-the peaceful villages, easygoing work habits, the uncommon civility that graces British life-will be endangered by EEC membership. There is a positive dread that chattering Frenchmen would monopolize London's sidewalks, that garlic-eating Italians in careering Alfa Romeos would shatter the tranquillity of the rustic British countryside, and that those too-efficient Germans would brusquely alter the cozy tea-break routine of British workers...
Euroman's attitudes are more difficult to pin down, naturally, than his possessions. One point of view that appears to be shared by vast numbers of Italians and Frenchmen, Germans and Scandinavians, however, is that their destiny is inextricably linked to that of the rest of Europe...
Currently, at least some 30,000 young Frenchmen are happily taking advantage of draft exemptions offered to anyone who volunteers to teach French in the hundreds of lycées and other schools spotted from the Ivory Coast to Indochina...