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French Rap: DÉSOLÉ (Sorry) Posted by on May 19, 2011

 They were tapped for la B.O. (no, not for “body odor”, silly French bashers). It’s for “bande originale“, meaning “O.S.”, i.e. the “original soundtrack”) of the movie “L’Agence tous risques” (“The A-Team“), and like that wasn’t enough”prestige” already, together with Daft Punk and David Guetta, were among the first French artists to hit the one million bar…

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Who DIDN’T Know that Daft Punk is French? Posted by on Apr 13, 2011

Almost à mi-chemin (halfway)between la place Charles-de-Gaulle and Place de Clichy, the Lycée Carnot (Carnot High school) saw many young and ambitious students graduate to become influential men and woman in the world: Some, as Jacques Chirac and Dominique Strauss-Kahn (a contender in the upcoming French Présidentielles) became de fins politiciens (shrewd politicians); others, like Louis Aragon were…

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