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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
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Apart from the eponymous letter, what have the French done for the world?
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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French kissing?
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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French impressionists art
People will tell you where they've gone
They'll tell you where to go
But till you get there yourself you never really know
Where some have found their paradise
Other's just come to harm
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inventing champagne
aqua
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. Washington Irving
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New to the forum - hi all!
And my answer would be the Napoleonic Code (which gave the base for many European Laws post-1815).
There are laws still on the books throughout Europe that date back to this code.
And then there is Paris...
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Benji
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I adore french cusine & some of their wine, other than that I would agree with you Timmy
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Fingolfin
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Registered: August 2008
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cuisine is too wide a word, I would say that there are several parts of cuisine that French gave important things to the world.
Cheese, especially types like Camembert, Cognac (though I prefer Scotch and Irish whisk(e)y), baguette, French sauces and dressings etc.
Marek
It is better to switch on a small light than to curse the darkness.
- Vincent Šikula, Slovak writer
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They sent us the Normans which prevented our island being taken over by foreign armed forces for over 900 years which gave us a distinctive way of life. Now our sovereignty is being given away bit by bit to the EU.
Hugs
N
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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Well, they say it's the language of romance. And you have to admit, "fuck", in French, sounds a lot less vulgar, ha, ha. And think how bored we'd be if we couldn't tell jokes about the French military? And who the hell else would have looked at a garden snail and thought..."I wonder if I could eat that?" And in the U.S. or U.K., if you pinch someone on the ass you are a sexual harasser, in France you are just doing your patriotic duty. And you definitely have to be French not to look silly in a beret.
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Nobody mentioned Proust or style or Ravel or Debussy. My father was born in France.
This is beginning to sound like the "What did the Romans ever do for us?" question.
Love,
Anthony
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