Is it just me, or does Dominique de Villepin, the former French Prime Minister (now under investigation for his role in an alleged smear campaign against Nicolas Sarkozy back in 2004), resemble our beloved Professor Capretz un petit peu?
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So, we ponied up the 15 clams and dispensed with the “wordpress.com” at the end of our name (much as we are liking wordpress right now) to become simply fiafans.org. Easy to remember, n’est-ce pas? I am looking for contributors who would like to write blog entries from time to time. Send me an example [...]
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More than once during the course of FIA we are treated to this cute scene of Mireille and Marie-Laure playing this children’s game. They sing in unison: «Je te tiens, tu me tiens par la barbichette, la première qui rira aura une tapette.» A «Barbichette» is a goatee according to the Ultralingua dictionary on my [...]
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Thanks to Charles Mayer’s Fancy Robot posts, we know that all the filming in Paris took place during the summer of 1985. It’s fun to look for such things as movie placards and magazines incidentally caught on film that definitively date the shot. Here we see the mysterious man-in-black (Jean-Claude Cotillard) in Leçon 40. He’s [...]
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Who the first was to concede cult status to FIA and Valérie Allain we may never know, but in 2005 radio station WNMC in Traverse City, MI aired a piece by Jim Turner that rings all too true for many of us. Turner ends with the conclusion: “Here in America, Mireille is a cult hero.” [...]
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As you can surely tell, I have much to figure out regarding how best to set up this site. Bear with me and send me your suggestions! A helpful blog visitor pointed out that the Fancy Robot FIA thread DOES survive at web.archive.org. Amazing. It now lives at the link above.
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Il y a vingt ans, French in Action, an ambitious French language video course for anglophones debuted in the classroom and on public television. It was the brainchild of Professor Pierre Capretz of Yale University and was produced by WGBH, Yale and Wellesley College with funding from Annenberg/CPB. The world has never been the same [...]
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