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		<title>Etienne&#8217;s View on French and BHL&#8217;s Politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Etienne sent our blog a post of Bernard-Henri Lévy, interviewed in L&#8217;Express about his views on French politics today &#8211; the future of its Socialist Party (PS). That appears on a separate post. This post was written by Etienne Roop, an American politician and political scholar, to give his take on BHL&#8217;s take. An English [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backbayfrancais.wordpress.com&blog=2110505&post=345&subd=backbayfrancais&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://backbayfrancais.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/etiennes-view-on-french-and-bhls-politics/</link>
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		<title>Is the French Socialist Party Dead?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this Express article, Bernard-Henri Lévy talks about the future of the Parti Socialiste in France &#8211; its position today and where he thinks it is going. BHL is a &#8220;new philosopher,&#8221; a political analyst and commentator, and a journalist. His views anger some French folk and inspire others.
BHL talks about the future of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backbayfrancais.wordpress.com&blog=2110505&post=341&subd=backbayfrancais&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Libéralisme&#8221; and BHL in French politics today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pamela Sacks and Etienne Roop are two of my more erudite students. Pam is learning French by supplementing grammar with translating from French to English. Etienne is progressing by reading and writing French. Below is Pam&#8217;s translation of Roop&#8217;s recent post on French politics, its take on &#8220;liberalism&#8221; and &#8220;antiliberalism,&#8221; and Bernard-Henri Lévy. Lévy is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backbayfrancais.wordpress.com&blog=2110505&post=336&subd=backbayfrancais&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://backbayfrancais.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/336/</link>
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		<title>French complain they are working harder and earning less</title>
		<description><![CDATA[French workers react to the financial crisis in France:
Getting less money for doing more work
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		<link>http://backbayfrancais.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/french-complain-they-are-working-harder-and-earning-less/</link>
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		<title>French anthropologist Levi-Strauss dead at 100</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To read about the passing of a major French cultural icon, click on:
Story on France24
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		<link>http://backbayfrancais.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/french-anthropologist-levi-strauss-dead-at-100/</link>
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		<title>Update on Paris&#8217; Bike Experiment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A surprising civic failure&#8230;.
&#8220;The cautionary tale of Paris, which has had more than 80 percent of its 20,000 bikes damaged or stolen in two years, shouldn&#8217;t stop other cities from pushing forward with similar bike-sharing programs, as Boston hopes to do next summer.&#8221;
A cautionary tale
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		<link>http://backbayfrancais.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/update-on-paris-bike-experiment/</link>
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		<title>Any Elegant English Words in French ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are any of our more literary, elegant words used by the French? An observant student, Harrison, asked me that very good question today. The French use words like &#8217;sweatshirt,&#8217; &#8216;prime time,&#8217; &#8216;dealer,&#8217;  &#8216;people,&#8217; and &#8216;glamour.&#8217; Why not some of our more elegant words? Do they have them already and only need new and trivial words [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backbayfrancais.wordpress.com&blog=2110505&post=319&subd=backbayfrancais&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://backbayfrancais.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/any-elegant-english-words-in-french/</link>
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		<title>The Hygienic Dangers of Paris !</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A hysterical WSJ article about the dangers of Paris. Seems that the situation is worse in NY, but Eric, the student who sent it to me, is wondering about his upcoming trip to the city. I told him that it&#8217;s better these days. I remember when you couldn&#8217;t even walk a straight line there! Any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backbayfrancais.wordpress.com&blog=2110505&post=317&subd=backbayfrancais&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://backbayfrancais.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/317/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;juilletistes&#8217; et &#8216;aoutiens&#8217; = d&#8217;autres réflections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A propos de mon commentaire sur les termes &#8216;juilletistes&#8217; et &#8216;aoutiens,&#8217; Brigid (Brigitte) nous envoie cette référence: See this:
http://french.about.com/od/vocabulary/a/chassecroise.htm?nl=1
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		<link>http://backbayfrancais.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/juilletistes-et-aoutiens-dautres-reflections/</link>
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		<title>Le Sens du mot &#8216;libéral&#8217; en français</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Etienne:
To distinguish between the &#8220;faux amis&#8221; &#8211; &#8216;liberal&#8217; and &#8220;libéral&#8221; &#8211; Stephen (&#8216;Etienne&#8217;) Roop nous écrit:  &#8220;A mon avis, les mots &#8220;libéral&#8221; et &#8220;antilibérale&#8221; sont des euphémismes communs parmi les intellectuels français. Ils ne veulent pas dire la même chose que leurs homonymes anglais.  &#8220;Libéral&#8221; fait allusion à la politique économique, en [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=backbayfrancais.wordpress.com&blog=2110505&post=311&subd=backbayfrancais&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://backbayfrancais.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/le-sens-du-mot-liberal-en-francais/</link>
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