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We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.
Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.
Francaise with our own proper pack. This permission, we feel bound to say, was graciously granted; which compels us here to give a public contradiction to the slanderers who pretend that we live
Bonjour, the Embassy of France'
'Ah, bonjour, excuse me for asking but where is the French Coastguard?'
'At the coast. Guarding.
I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.
There is a certain dignity to being French.
Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour.
I'm not a Frenchie, I'm a Belgie!
bushel of gold pieces;
Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?
I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries.
(Claude and Marcel LeFever were speaking in French. This simultaneous English translation is being beamed to the reader via literary satellite.)
I am Parisian. I don't love the French.
The French cook; we open tins.
I can never forgive God for having invented the French
This vice brings in one hundred million francs in taxes every year. I will certainly forbid it at once - as soon as you can name a virtue that brings in as much revenue.
Another question has been raised rather widely in Europe, in Japan as well as in the United States is what, to what extent will the euro become a reserve currency.
They're from France, Ruby said, Vogue magazine. They only speak French except for fuck you.
Remember this: no matter how politely or distinctly you ask a Parisian a question he will persist in answering you in French.
To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the Anglo-Saxon prejudices.
We have hated the French for years. Now you have just joined the club. It makes you much more likable.
Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.
Money is a means of exchange.
There's always something fishy about the French.
For the French army was going to war. In taxis.
I think that France has not made it clear enough recently to our German friends how important it is to introduce euro bonds as a tool against speculation. And how the necessary budget discipline needs to be accompanied by growth.
There's something Vichy about the French.
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.
I love the French language ... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.
Money is like sex,' I said. 'It seems much more important when you don't have any ... '
'You talk like a writer,' said Francois.
Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.
Don't just yell France! There are a lot of other countries.
bullshit french post-war rationalizing
There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange
No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order, it is held in honor. The American will describe as noble and estimable ambition that our medieval ancestors would have called base cupidity.
Quite Franc-ly, I think I am an asset to this world we live in. I know that if I didn't exist, there would be some truly upset people just waiting for me. A life without Franco is like a kitten without fur. That's what my reflection told me.
On to some juicy French philosophical sex-killing murder-suicide cannibal thing. You?"
"Still the controversial Hungarian breast-cancer radioactive seed implant treatment thing. I adore you."
"Je t'adore aussi. Call me. Bye."
"Bye.
I read French much better than I speak.
You know why the French hate us so much? Thay gave us the croissant. And you know what we did with it? We turned it into our croissandwich, thank you very much.
How does a poor country defeat rich ones?" "Indeed, the answer is not by acquiring wealth in the sense that France has it." "Meaning vineyards, farms, peasants, cows?" "But rather to play a sort of trick and redefine wealth to mean something novel." "Currency!" "Indeed.
Mom spoke to us in Swiss when we were little.
[Trading] With the French one had to be especially careful. French oarswomen were known to take men aside, point to whatever they wanted, and then peel off their own shirts. It took great presence of mind to bargain with a half-naked Frenchwoman.
In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.
If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.
France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
Ordinary French people. Citizens of fear.
A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
Swearing is a currency the countryside spends well.
I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais.
What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?
Have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the Cock-lane brood. France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of the shield and trident,
Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.
The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.
I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.
Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the where-withal: call it what you like, money matters.
villeins; and we have labour paid in kind, and leaseholders,
JJ informed me, when he dropped them off, that they are French bulldogs, which has led med to reassess my opinion of the French. They may know a lot about making wine and fries, but they don't know jacques-merde about making dogs.
I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
Who buys French cars? Not me.
The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
I don't put cash in my Louis Vuitton wallet. I have it thrown around my bag - jut a whole bunch of hundreds, maybe $5,000.
It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.
Your most valuable currency is what comes most naturally to you. Cash in!
France is France and a grand place for Frenchman.
Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!
So you owe me."
"Exactly. I pay in kisses."
"Good thing I accept that currency.
Surley, they couldn't be French?
He tried French anyway, 'Parlay buffon say?
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
The prices are vertiginous. Carlinhos and Wagner take a booth and they talk and dip their wafers of exquisite beef into the sauces but most of the time they keep companionable silence together, as close men do, and find they have communicated everything. Run
Proximity to this death makes me nostalgic for the French language.
Hell, I don't know if he speaks French.
If you talk about Cabernet and Merlot-based value between $10 and $25, I will tell you that Bordeaux is the best value in the world.
No exchange rate for the confidence of youth.
What exactly is a french before it's fried?
I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.
The French are nice people. I allow them to sing and to write, and they allow me to do whatever I like.
You chose to come to Paris, of all places, Mencheres replied.
So what? Got something against the French?
I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.
As to my heart, since I have worn an eighty franc corset I do not hear it, and I am very much afraid that I have left it in one of Marcel's drawers.
In the art world, Monet means money.
A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.
It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices there.
Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
I don't like people who speak French in public places. This includes the French.
Money has a language of its own.
Whatever the man's age, history, condition, knowledge, culture, development, he had an erection. Good currency anywhere. Recognized by the Bank of England.
Latin, Greek, and English, plus a smattering of Italian and fucking French." "Fucking French, you say? Well . . ." "Oui," said I, in perfect fucking French.
11,340 miles, or 5,250 French leagues,
In other words, every cent the French government spent on guns for the Americans was another centime it would not have to spend on butter for the starving peasants who would one day storm Versailles.
You may be a foreigner, but you have the heart of a Frenchman.
I don't live in France, I live in myself.
French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway.
This bank-note world.
The oldest and most important currency is debt.
The French like burgers, Madonna and Miami Vice.
Frances is a diamond, passed from filthy paw to paw but never diminished. The men who handle her can leave no mark because her worth is far above them. (page 361)
There are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet.
[Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]
See Monsieur Geborand, buying a pennyworth of paradise.
This card entitles the holder to unlimited admission
is imprinted on one side in black ink, and on the reverse it reads:
Le Cirque des Reves
and in smaller letters beneath that:
Chandresh Christophe Lefevere, Proprietor