When I was their age, I would have done my French homework before I'd have put on something like that.

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Like most French or European citizens, I would add a point: So what?

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"I like it, " said Patrick Vieira, the former French international whose side lost the 2006 World Cup final to Italy on penalty kicks.

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At a time like this, though, I wish I tutored English instead of French.

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Given the French general wariness over new technology and its potentially disruptive impacts I do rather like the fact that it all happened in a part of France that you cannot get to from France.

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World War I camofleurs concentrated on hardware like artillery and ships, with the British soon catching up on the French after initial reservations about the military benefits of Cubism, despised by some as "Boche art".

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On the other hand, the group I saw singing "Toujours" at the French ambassador's residence in Washington a few weeks ago didn't look like anyone I knew in college.

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