He called this kind of artwork "Art Brut" which is French for "raw art."

VOA: special.2010.04.14

Splice features French actress Delphine Chaneac as the voracious creature the scientists name "Dren", which is "nerd" backwards.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

The government is calling this a "goal" not a quota, which runs counter to the French system.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

(Speaking in French) Boisserie argues the government is focusing too narrowly on the elite grandes ecoles, which account for just a small slice of French university graduates.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

French actress Marion Cotilliard plays Mal,which means "bad" in French.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Smith-Valade told VOA one of the key communications objectives for the Vancouver Olympics was to present Canada's linguistic duality of English and French, which are also the two languages of the IOC.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

It was kicked off last June by President Nicolas Sarkozy, who announced in a major speech that the face veil, which he called a burqa, was against French values and not welcome in France.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

"We wanted to raise the bar a bit and right from the way in which we recruited the communications staff, to my own commitment to French, we've tried to build a communications team that is fluently bilingual.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25