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  French Canadian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In general, it refers to inhabitants of Canada who are francophone (French speaking) or whose ancestry is French Canadian and who identify with their French-Canadian heritage.
With the exception of the Acadians who have a distinct shared history, most French Canadians find their ancestry among agriculturalists from France who colonized the area that is now Quebec during Canada's colonial period starting in the 17th century.
After the 1760 British conquest of New France in the French and Indian War, the French-Canadian population remained important in the life of the colonies.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French-Canadian   (926 words)

  
 May 1968 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
May 1968 poster: "Be young and shut up." The shadow is a caricature of General De Gaulle.
Students at the University of the Sorbonne in Paris met on 3 May to protest the closure and the threatened expulsion of several students at Nanterre.
On Monday, 6 May, the national student union and the union of university teachers called a march to protest against the police invasion of the Sorbonne.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_May   (2272 words)

  
 French Graduate Program -Grad Handbook
In exceptional cases, the department may elect to invite outstanding MA/PhD candidates (for example, students with an MA in a related field from an outside institution who clearly perform at the doctoral level) to enter the PhD program at the end of winter quarter of their first year in the program.
May be satisfied by French 206 or an equivalent course elsewhere, or by passing the final exam for French 206 with a grade of B or better.
The Pierre and Geneviève Delattre Memorial Fellowship and the Jean Belin Fellowship may be awarded to incoming or continuing students at the discretion of the department's Admissions and Fellowships committee, on the basis of merit.
www.french-ital.ucsb.edu /graduates/handbook.html   (9236 words)

  
 French, Courses Summer 2003
According to his or her expertise, you may be learning about French or Italian language or culture; you may be exposed to French or Italian literature of many periods, many authors or many types such as short stories, novels, plays, poetry or film.
Even with no prior study of French, students by the end of a semester are able to read and understand materials written in French in the standard literature and professional journals of their field of interest.
May be used concurrently with other enrollments to bring to total number of units to the required minimum.
catalog.arizona.edu /2002-03/courses/032/FREN.html   (4159 words)

  
 UCLA French & Francophone Studies: Undergraduate Program
French 1 through 3 (elementary level) and French 4 through 6 (intermediate level) are multiple-section courses supervised by Nicole Dufresne (794-8927 and dufresne@humnet.ucla.edu) and Kimberly Jansma (794-8922 and jansma@humnet.ucla.edu).
Students interested in a French major should also be aware of the general regulations and requirements as described in the current UCLA General Catalog, the official and final reference as far as requirements and regulations are concerned.
Or you may combine these areas of study to satisfy the requirement of eight upper-division courses, two of which may be taken outside of department, with approval from an advisor.
www.french.ucla.edu /programs/undergrade_prog.htm   (3132 words)

  
 Wayne State Romance Langs, French MA Requirements   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
An oral comprehensive examination in French is required at the end of course work.
French 5200 (3 cr.) - Phonetics and Diction
French 6450 or 6470 (3 cr.) - French Civilization.
www.langlab.wayne.edu /Romance/MAFren.html   (894 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - French may reject EU constitution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
But the French, who are worried about unemployment (almost one of four people under 25 are out of work), competition from cheaper Eastern European countries and immigration, see the constitution as a symbol of the potential risk of a more open Europe.
What few French appear to understand is that nothing in the new constitution would change that.
French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said recently that he found it "stunning" that those planning to vote no thought they would be voicing their discontent with Europe, when instead they would be voting to keep the Europe they dislike.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-05-27-referendum_x.htm?csp=36   (1514 words)

  
 rec.pets.dogs: French Bulldogs Breed-FAQ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
For example, in April of 1995 27 French Bulldog litters were registered in all of the USA, as opposed to 2.512 litters of standard poodles, or 291 litters of Bulldogs.
French Bulldogs can also suffer from an assortment of back and spinal diseases, most of which are probably related to the fact that they were selectively chosen from the dwarf examples of the Bulldog Breed.
Breed Clubs The French Bull Dog Club of America http://www.frenchbulldogclub.org Information regarding the French Bulldog, including Breed information French Bulldog Fanciers of Canada http://www.frenchbulldogs.org/fbfc Membership is open to all fanciers of the breed from any where in the world.
www.faqs.org /faqs/dogs-faq/breeds/frenchbulldogs   (2529 words)

  
 Overview of the French Language to Help You Learn French
The French language is one of the official languages in Canada, Belgium, and Switzerland, plus it is considered an unofficial second language in many countries such as Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.
French is also one of the six official languages of the United Nations.
For example, in French numerals, a decimal is written as a comma, and vice-versa.
www.transparent.com /languagepages/french/overview.htm   (779 words)

  
 French Studies at UNBSJ - Programs & Certificates
A French Communication and Culture course will count towards the fulfilment of the Major requirement only when it is passed with a grade of C or above at lower level and C+ or above at upper level.
Students completing a French Minor are required to complete at least 12 ch of upper level in French Communication and Culture, with a maximum of 12 ch at the lower level (FR 1203, 1204 and 2203,2204).
The program consists normally of FR 1203/1204, 2203/2204, 3203, 3204, 4204 and one of 3704, 3714, 3724 in all of which the student is to attain a mark of C or higher, and the certificate is awarded on the basis of a comprehensive examination upon termination of FR 4204.
www.unbsj.ca /arts/french/programs.html   (1444 words)

  
 French May Seminar
We will also unearth the historical roots of yesterday, in part by exploring Roman (and Greek) ruins, in modern French cities of today (and tomorrow): our “hub” cities are Arles, Poitiers, Paris, and Rennes.
The French Department traditionally only accepts sophomore, junior, and senior students who have completed French 212 and the Pre-May Seminar (French 255) in the semester prior to departure.
At the end of the seminar, we encourage students to proceed into a homestay of eight weeks (the French Practicum: FREN 490).
www4.cord.edu /french/french_may_seminar.htm   (261 words)

  
 French and Italian Courses
May be repeated for credit when the topics vary; graduate students in French may count only one topic toward the degree.
Studies in French Literature of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
Prerequisite: For 698A, graduate standing in French and consent of the graduate adviser; for 698B, French 698A.
www.utexas.edu /student/registrar/catalogs/gradcat/ch4/la/fr.crs.html   (972 words)

  
 Republicans & Conservatives:: Being French
The French slice is not getting smaller, mind you, and France remains a green and pleasant place to live, but their relative share is declining.
The French may in fact be saving the US from that old addage, beware what you wish for.
But, creating a united economic consortium cannot be accomplished among a host of nations with vastly differing laws of commerce, sanctions, enforcement, etc. without some degree of homogenizing the political consortium of all those countries to the extent that commerce operates on the same set of principles, laws, and enforcements within the union.
watchblog.com /republicans/archives/002301.html   (5098 words)

  
 Star Inc. Magazine (French) - May 2000
He was born in Lausanne on June 10, 1965, to a Spanish father and a German mother, the second of three children.
The French –Senegalese perhaps saw the film Too Beautiful For You, and left one of the most attractive men on the planet for Cyrano.
The film, on movie screens May 5th, is based on an autobiographical novel by Kuki Gallmann.
www.vincentperez.com /astarinc.html   (1008 words)

  
 Fluent French
In French magazines the beginning of an article is often reused verbatim as the squib which appears in the table of contents.
French acronyms (called acronymes and sigles in French) have a different-less aesthetic to me at first-ring to them than English ones: SMEREP is the Société mutualiste des étudiants de la région parisienne (Student's Mutual Insurance Company of the Greater Paris Area).
The plural of an acroynym is unchanged in French:
www.signiform.com /french/ff.htm   (16103 words)

  
 French National Holidays, Festivals, Religious Celebrations
During the month of May, there is a holiday nearly every week, so be prepared for stores, banks and museums to shut their doors for days at a time.
The French Ministry of Education maintains this handy web site which lists all the school holidays and vacations for every region of France — including overseas territories — for the current academic year and the next three years.
A team of several dozen individuals has assembled this wonderful resource, which follows the development of French holiday traditions over the centuries, and explores how many of these customs were imported to the new world.
www.discoverfrance.net /France/DF_holidays.shtml   (957 words)

  
 CBS News | French May Lose 35-Hour Workweek | February 9, 2005 16:30:02
After a vitriolic debate, lawmakers approved a bill on Wednesday that would allow employees to work more.
Chirac's former finance minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, has said the 35-hour week would cost the French state 10 billion euros ($13 billion) this year.
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www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/02/09/world/main672718.shtml   (373 words)

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