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  • Seeing the Belgian webcomic Fernand l'ours blanc ( "Fernand the Polar Bear"), by Wandrille and Marshall Joe, makes me wish I'd taken French in college.

    Read this webcomic: Fernand l’ours blanc | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • Mais c rigolo de dormir devant la tele parce que ca fait de drole de mix comme: Alonzo tué sur une plage de Miami où enquete les epxerts qui pour etre remercié de leur succes pour avoir trouvé le meurtrier qui n'etait autre que l'ours cajoline ont ete invité au maillon fable!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • "If the French come here we shall give them a sour welcome; and as to my Lord the Governor, he will find," and he slipped in his eagerness into his native tongue, "that he has made _le marché de la peau de l'ours qui ne seroit pas encore tué_."

    St George's Cross 1870

  • "Voila ou l'ours a montre sa patte," she thought in French, but at this moment her husband appeared in the doorway, his hat on his head and a walking stick in his hand.

    Virgin Soil Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850

  • Porter le fardeau hunt not l'ours enfanter l'enfant but bear not la douleur l'os that's bare will not suit the bear

    Green Inventions Central 2010

  • So let's go on a chasse à l'ours (bear hunt) and see what

    Green Inventions Central 2010

  • Chassin N (2003) Aspects juridiques de la conservation des grands prédateurs en France: les cas du loup et de l'ours: Université d'Aix-en-Provence.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • Lepeltier S (2005) Communication officielle sur la survie de l'ours dans les Pyrénées du 13 janvier 2005.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • Quenette PY (2000) Bilan scientifique et technique de la réintroduction de l'ours brun en Pyrénées Centrales.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • Don't count your chickens before they are hatched (F) Il ne faut pas vendre la peau de l'ours avant de l'avoir tué ` You should not sell the skin of the bear before you have killed him '; (G) Man soll die Haut nicht verkaufen, ehe man den Bären gefangen hat ` You should not sell the skin before you have caught the bear'; (R) He \?

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 2 1992

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