She asked Cooperman out after they met in French class at Hunter College.
Many critics praised its style and tone, and its submerged critique of the French class system, while others complained that, while nothing happened very prettily, nothing happened.
But the basic point is keenly felt among the French governing class.
Sure enough, a favourite posture among the French political class is proclaiming the need to build up Europe to counterbalance the United States.
But, for another other camp, involving Europe's left (and more or less the entire French political class), the point of Europe is to keep globalisation at bay, or at least curb its power.
This is the failure of the French political class over the past 20 years to tell it straight: to explain to the electorate what is at stake, why France needs to adapt, and why change need not bring only discomfort.
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The longer Mr Sarkozy continues to serve in government, the harder it will be to dissociate himself from the record he intends to condemn, and from the political class that the French so distrust.
By making it, he is just confirming that he is still a good alumni of the old school of the administrative French elite (his 1980 class below had Villepin, Royal and Hollande in its ranks).
Less than a year after the White Star Line-owned vessels left the city, the Nomadic was employed to transport first and second class passengers from the French port of Cherbourg to the Titanic ahead of its ill-fated maiden Atlantic voyage.
For the culinary ambitious, Abercrombie and Kent Villas can arrange a cooking class with a specially trained French chef that walks through how traditional escargot is prepared.
The ship, which is undergoing restoration at the Hamilton Dock in Titanic quarter in Belfast was used to transport first and second class passengers to Titanic at the French port of Cherbourg.
Yet we think the lemongrass deodorizing foot powder lotions and hemp lip conditioners are here to stay, with Body Shop becoming L'Oreal's much-trumpeted "ethical" brand, allowing the French giant to penetrate the lucrative liberal-middle-class guilt market.
Taking an elective in college used to mean studying something you wanted to learn about but not necessarily major in: the mathematician who took a class in 19th century Russian literature or the French major who studied Biology 101.
Business class passengers on El Al Israel Airlines and French carrier Open Skies are given an iPad to watch movies or listen to music, and Swiss regional carrier Skywork uses them for its in-flight customer satisfaction survey.
The Ryder school will have only 20 students per class (the district averages 28), uniforms, French, Spanish and Latin, and computers.
But there is much more to Philly than history, from cheesesteaks and fine dining to a truly stunning world class assortment of museums and the largest collection of impressionist French art outside of Paris.
The teacher, an American expat, spoke to the class solely in English, almost unheard-of in French schools where foreign languages are taught in French by French natives, and we were all handed a phonebook-sized block of paper, full of lists of verbs and pronouns, useful tips, press clips (largely from The Economist) and other things to learn.
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The Faubourg Marigny neighborhood, just a few blocks away from the French Quarter, is home to a cosmopolitan mix of immigrants and working class, artists and musicians, along with some of the best-preserved architecture in New Orleans.
Institutions, in the form of a fledgling merchant class, provided momentum for reform, making the difference between the successful French revolution and failed uprisings elsewhere.
During the French Revolution, Parisian women had requested the right to wear trousers and working-class revolutionaries became known as "sans-culottes" for wearing trousers instead of the silk-knee breeches preferred by the bourgeoisie.
Several things had helped, among them Elizabeth David's explorations of French and Italian cooking, cheap holidays abroad and the rise of a new middle class which had more money, and less sangfroid, than before.
The French voted for Mr Le Pen in part because they were fed up with the stale mainstream political class.
The French responded with the usual mixture of bribes and terror: when an attempt to buy off the aristocratic class failed, they were sure that just getting tough enough one last time would do the trick.
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