Word: parlez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Slavic Department should plan to offer the new introductory course in 1958-59, and should look to the day when "Govoritye po-russky?" is heard as often as "Parlez-vous francais...
Rural Reactionary. French nightclub singers, much easier to remember than French premiers, are possibly better guides to their country's history. There was Lucienne Boyer, who had her heyday in the uncertain years between the wars, a trim but still sizable singer who put across Parlez-Moi d'Amour as if Paris and amour had not changed since the golden nineties (although one line in the song admitted: "Actually, I don't believe any of it"). Then came Edith Piaf, so thin that she was barely visible through the nightclub smoke, with an occasional sentimental number...