An ethnically Chinese sales manager, who spoke English with a distinct French accent, greeted me.
"When you see my works, it seems they change a lot, " he says, with a thick French accent.
At the Hotel Albergo, guests are treated to the opulence and luxury of the Orient, but with a French accent.
The other hilarious character was the butler, with his French accent and quick wit, always in pursuit of making his debut on stage.
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In a strong French accent he told the swells he hailed from the little-known Gallic branch of the famously fixed family whose members have graced every Forbes 400 list since its 1982 inception.
The LePad (apologies for repeating the name, we just love saying it in a French accent) will then be greeted in January by its "hybrid option" -- a separate case containing a keyboard and laptop guts.
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And she also took a swipe at Britain's representatives in Europe, both officials and elected MEPs, for "going native" - and even speaking with a "weird half French, half German accent".
Sporting a thick American accent he also chooses not to go by the legal French spelling of his name, Olivier.
"We are the easiest target in the world for a couple of reasons, one our accent, it's called foie gras, it's a French word, " Daguin tells CNN.
That night, they dined in a little restaurant with a charcoal grill in the Rue Racine, where they were joined by the Spanish journalist, Paco Morral, who liked to imitate the Buenos Aires accent, very badly, and believed that Spanish cinema was far better than French cinema, much more dense, an opinion shared by Riquelme.
When Martha Stewart asked the founder of gourmet meat purveyor D'Artagnan about the hearty French dish of duck confit, garlic sausages and tarbais beans, Ariane Daguin responded in a thick Gascon accent that imparted culinary authority.
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