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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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V for “les Visiteurs” (Revisited) Posted by on May 17, 2010

This is not about “V for Vendetta”; it’s about another Sci-Fi classic. Do you remember watching the trilogy of “Retour vers le Futur“ (“Back to the Future”) starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, respectively featuring the teenager “Marty McFly” and the savant fou (mad scientist) “Dr. Emmett Brown”? The main plot of that movie was to have people from notre ère…

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