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Lalonde's point is valid. High school students in British Columbia generally learn the Parisian dialect of French which is noticeably different from the language spoken by Quebecers. Despite the federal government's investment of several million dollars in British Columbia, the teaching of French lacks continuity and is ineffectual...
Particularly galling to Giscard was the Parisian victory of his ex-ally and former Premier, who had dramatically quit the government last year. Winning over Giscard's hand-picked candidate, Michel d'Ornano, Chirac-barring an unexpected upset-will now hold sway in the Hôtel de Ville as Paris' first elected mayor in a century; the office was re-introduced as a result of a change in statutes engineered by Giscard 15 months ago. Previously, Paris was run by government-appointed officials. The mayor's new powers will include administering a $ 1.4 billion yearly...
GEORGE SAND was an infamous woman. Her much flaunted affairs with Chopin, de Musset and innumerable other artists and writers, her publicized separation from her husband (who probably fathered only one of the two children bearing his name), even her attire and habits--she regularly appeared in Parisian theatres sporting a suit of man's clothes, smoking Turkish cigarettes--provided reams of copy for 19th century scandal sheets and an inexhaustible gossip topic for European salons. But in this new biography, Joseph Barry correctly points out that Sand was more than the mistress of famous men and deserves...
...pushy, fun-loving and emotionally honest. Simone and her brother Andre, a precocious methematician who currently works at the Center for Advanced Study at Princeton, enjoyed a materially privileged and psychologically peaceful childhood--spending early years and summers in the country and benefitting from the best of Parisian schooling during their teens and early twenties...
...other American artists, collectors and critics boycotted the place to protest against France's release of Palestinian Terrorist Abu Daoud. Other detractors simply charged that the computerized temple of glass and steel was too expensive (about $200 million). And so, amid all the scandale beloved of the Parisian art world, 3,500 notables were invited to gather this week for the opening of the Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture...