A French friend reported to me recently that, when she was thinking of leaving Paris for a year to study at Cambridge, she was told (no doubt in a comedy-accent) : ‘But everyone and everything is in Paris. Why would you want to leave all this to move to some village in England ?’
My favourite English prejudice against France – that the French are convinced the earth revolves around them – has some real foundations then… But this video clip from the French (and very earnest) version of Who wants to be a Millionaire suggests that other things revolve around the French, too…
For non-French speakers : the question is what revolves around the earth. The candidate hesitates between answer A, the moon, and answer B, the sun. So he asks the audience…
http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=-8493010508114425938&q=qui+veut+gagner
(Having problems with the links - will put them up properly soon)
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Hi Yasha,
Julian, Robert, Dominic and Andrew think your website is the bee's knees! Well done and all the best with taking over the European intellectual scene with your brilliance.
J, R, D and A
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