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...avoid the worst, Etiemble is preparing a dictionary (Parlez-Vous Franglais?) of French equivalents for Anglicisms. Even where there is none whatever (for Jeep, say), he will insist on French spelling (Jipe). Guillermou is devising a linguistic decompression chamber: a new French glossary with three sections-white pages for acceptable words, red for inadmissible ones, and green pages that "will be a sort of Ellis Island of the French vocabulary. After suitable nationalization, the words may move into the white pages...
Rover. A stocky stranger, wearing a grey hat, a light raincoat and red gloves, opened the rear door and inquired. "Etes-vous Monsieur Lafond?" At Lafond's nod, he pumped two bullets into his victim's abdomen. then shot the chauffeur for good measure...
Regarding degrees of orchestral discipline: Charles Munch would say to his men, "Messieurs, je vous en prie...
Actress Mauban's show was produced by the French government's RTF (Radio-diffusion Télévision Français). In 39 quarter-hour episodes, titled Les Français Chez Vous (The French People in Your Home), the series uses mimes, comedians and chausonniers to act out idioms and grammatical structure. Actress Addams' show is the work of Hachette, the big Paris publisher that supplies every French schoolchild with books. Titled En France Comme Si Vous y Etiez (As If You Were in France), it guides the audience through 26 half-hour slices...
...Roman Catholic, she is rumored to have vetoed a projected ministerial appointment because she disapproved of the sexual laxity of the man's wife. Her effect on De Gaulle is to tug him toward conformity, tone down his barracks vocabulary, soothe his rages. The De Gaulles use the vous form to each other, rather than the more intimate tu. Though this indicates a certain old-fashioned formality in their relations, it does not suggest any lack of affection...