You've been in New Orleans, along Canal Street in the French district, in the French Quarters.

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While engaged in his own process, he takes inspiration from all quarters, including the French film Camille Claudel, saturated in his favorite greens and blues, and, most recently, Shampoo.

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Of the country's 1, 200 or so Muslim clerics, he says, three-quarters are not French, and a third do not even speak French.

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