* « USS Clueless »:http://denbeste.nu/ has « a paper on France »:http://denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2003/08/Courtesan.shtml (where is France ?)
{← « ZDF »:http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/dacha/000230.html (« Steven den Beste [est] un auteur si exhaustif, [qu’]il y a peu à ajouter derrière lui »)}
* « Blogitorial »:http://gandalf.ics.uci.edu/blog/ hosts a post from Ariel Gaussart on the same subject called « Three Weeks in France, Ten Years Later »:http://gandalf.ics.uci.edu/blog/2003/08/three_weeks_in_france_ten_years_later.html
Exerpts provided for your personnal benefit: « As my wife and I strolled down *Gambetta Avenue in Grenoble*, host of the 1968 Winter Olympics, admiring the beauty and majesty of its surrounding mountains, we were often forced to refocus our attention to the lower level of the city sidewalk to avoid stepping on fresh dog poop. Several days later, as we make our way towards the Eiffel tower leaving the Champs-Elysées – where we cheered our own Lance Armstrong, to his 5th consecutive Tour de France victory – we asked a distinctly pregnant traffic cop for the nearest public restroom. She smiled at us and hesitantly indicated that she had been wondering the same thing herself for the past couple of hours.
These two anecdotes, transposed on a cultural level, reflect what we have experienced over the past three weeks in France. »
{← « ForNow »:http://4now.blogspot.com (Fort Naoh ?) ← « post #13 on ZDF comments to the ZdF rant above »:http://gandalf.ics.uci.edu/blog/2003/06/carls_junior_disses_france.html}
* « l’esprit des mots »:http://www.valeursactuelles.com/culture/esprit_mots/index.php du (parfois) bon Philippe Barthelet est lisible (!) sur « VA.com »:http://www.valeursactuelles.com
My long rant is no longer #13 there, it’s some other number, & numbers don’t appear there, & I left three or four comments. Anyhoo, with the long rant, I thought I’d outdone myself, then along comes a fellow who posted « Three Weeks in France, Ten Years Later » & blew me out of the water, it was such a fine post, the star of a memorable thread.
« 4now »:http://4now.blogspot.com/, please accept our apologies. The above mentionned # 13 post is on the ZdF thread located « here »:http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/dacha/000230.html and not on Blogitorial as we originally wrote. Original post has been edited accordingly.
You will forever be here remembered as the one who pointed us to « three weeks in France ten years later »:http://gandalf.ics.uci.edu/blog/2003/08/three_weeks_in_france_ten_years_later.html, a well-observed description of « mes chers compatriotes ».