The second was the recent refusal by President Jacques Chirac to change the French constitution to give recognition to regional languages such as Corsican, a dialect closer to Italian than French.
If the man who was Shakespeare regularly relied on books not yet translated from Italian, French, and Spanish, then he must have been able to read in Italian, French, and Spanish.
The premiums investors have to pay to hold Italian and French 10-year government debt over benchmark German Bunds rose to their highest in the euro era Thursday with signs growing that the Greek government may fall.
And then official Europe went on vacation: Ms. Merkel to the Italian Alps, Mr. Sarkozy to the French Riviera.
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It prompted modernization from Italian futurists who sought to rival their French peers.
Their knowledge of the world beyond Latin America is largely confined to the French and Italian left, and few of them speak English.
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The first six are called Sonate di chiesa and have more intricate, abstract counterpoint, whereas the six remaining sonatas, the Sonate di camera, have more dance-like movements in what seems to be an Italian version of the French suite form.
According to the French magazine Le Point, more than 250 Porches leave the Italian peninsula every week to be sold elsewhere at 30-40% below Blue Book values.
He worked tirelessly, and began to learn German, Spanish, Italian, French, and even some Turkish.
This year, nearly a billion bottles' worth of French and Italian wine are expected to meet that ignominious end.
The French and Italian federations have agreed to cede shares in European Cup Ltd, the organisation that organises the Heineken Cup, to their clubs.
It also been reported that the Russian, Italian, French and Spanish pavilions are set to reopen and be kept standing for the next 50 years.
Some linguists, though, instead classify them as separate languages within a language family, analogous to the French, Spanish and Italian languages within the Romance language family.
In the Valais region, an arc that runs along the French and Italian borders and home to the Matterhorn, the local fondue variety calls for a tomato coulis.
During the second world war, when most Tunisian nationalists supported the German-Italian axis, Mr Bourguiba declined to reject the French, even when in 1942 the Germans let him out of his French prison.
The RFU is reluctant to hand over equal voting rights and shares in European Cup Rugby (ERC), which runs the Heineken Cup, whereas the French and Italian authorities have agreed to do so.
Evans's shrewdness and determination, along with his willingness to spend freely, secured him the site against competition from French, Italian and American archaeologists, in a scramble among the Great Powers for a treasure trove to rival Heinrich Schliemann's excavations at Troy and Mycenae on the mainland.
But Italian exporters have also been losing market share to their French and German competitors.
DCN, thinks it will take from two to five years to bring together French, German, Italian and Spanish shipyards.
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But also French and Italian readers will be able shortly to read books in their languages, thanks to other agreements that are almost ready to be formalized.
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On any given Saturday morning my daughter plays with children whose parents speak all different languages to their children including Japanese, French, Italian, Russian and, of course, English.
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Italian Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu said the raids had dealt "a hard blow to the most powerful and ruthless Italian criminal organisation, " French news agency AFP reported.
With French and Italian politics in turmoil, Europe seems unlikely to be able to make the tough decisions necessary to get a deal done.
Biarritz had lost at Gloucester then won handsomely at home to Italian side Calvisano, but have been struggling domestically in the French Top 14.
In 2002, EMU countries will use only the euro as their legal tender, and the deutsche mark, French franc, Italian lira et al. will cease to exist.
Valls paid tribute to the efforts of the emergency workers, French and Italian, who searched in perilous conditions of snow, ice and wind from the early morning for those who were missing.
The commission uses a programme called Systran, which it has adapted to translate various combinations of English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and Greek.
"I salute the Italian boy who came to Paris to earn his living and chose to become French, first in August 1914 when he lied about his age to sign up at 16 for the Foreign Legion to defend his adopted homeland, " the French president said in a statement.
Pansieri, a fluent speaker of English, German, French, Spanish and Chinese, in addition to her native Italian, holds doctorate degrees in philosophy from Milan University and in Chinese language and literature from Venice University.
The ballooning in the CDS prices for Lloyds and RBS is pretty similar to the ballooning of the CDS prices for Spanish, French and Italian banks - except that in the case of the big Italian banks, Unicredit and Intesa, the cost of insuring debt is even higher.
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