For more than a decade France has imposed quotas of about 40% French language songs on radio.

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For the French, traditionally so snooty about their language, that requires sacrifices.

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The reaction in France was more muted, perhaps because the agreement carefully avoids any of the visionary language about European architectures that excites French imaginations, but which many British Conservatives, such as the defence secretary, Liam Fox, viscerally loathe.

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And the language divide is much less contentious in Wales and Scotland than it is in Canada, where pressure for independence in Quebec is intimately bound up with French-speakers' worry about the survival of their language and culture.

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Michael Haneke's French-language "Amour, " a perfect film about intertwined lives, proceeds at its own pace, and breathes so deeply that it takes your own breath away.

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They will then be taken to southern Europe next spring to test the new car and to tell their friends about it on Facebook and Twitter in German, Russian, French and any other language.

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