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  • I was always a bit shy and hesitant when I ordered from the women who worked in this shop, my illiteracy in Kabyle, my obvious non-French accent — it was much more humbling, my awkwardness there, than having my mistakes corrected in the regular French bakeries, uuuuune baguette, pas UN, mademoiselle!

    Five Stops on Line 2, Ch 1: Qalb elouz Jennifer Solheim 2011

  • France is deeply offended that a non-French entity views it as its mission to organize French information, and implicitly rank French culture within France and worldwide.

    Google apologizes to Chinese book authors 2010

  • Many of the country's top CEOs from that same generation have studied outside of France, lived several years abroad, and some even are non-French Ben Verwayen, Chris Viebacher..., which would have been considered an anomaly, if not a heresy, just years ago.

    Felix Marquardt: Le Comeback: How France & the French Model Might Be More Relevant Than Expected in the 21st Century Felix Marquardt 2011

  • I was always a bit shy and hesitant when I ordered from the women who worked in this shop, my illiteracy in Kabyle, my obvious non-French accent — it was much more humbling, my awkwardness there, than having my mistakes corrected in the regular French bakeries, uuuuune baguette, pas UN, mademoiselle!

    Five Stops on Line 2, Ch 1: Qalb elouz Jennifer Solheim 2011

  • That program started with a kindergarten class of 24 students, split evenly between native French speakers and non-French speakers, and with one teacher.

    Learning to Be French in Brooklyn Kavita Mokha 2011

  • Many of the country's top CEOs from that same generation have studied outside of France, lived several years abroad, and some even are non-French Ben Verwayen, Chris Viebacher..., which would have been considered an anomaly, if not a heresy, just years ago.

    Felix Marquardt: Le Comeback: How France & the French Model Might Be More Relevant Than Expected in the 21st Century Felix Marquardt 2011

  • The song, in fact, warns its citizens that savage enemies are arriving "to cut the throats of your sons and consorts," regrettably requiring that these rude and violent foreigners be massacred in such a way that French farmland is irrigated by their blood - which, being non-French, is "impure."

    What so proudly we failed 2011

  • As a favorite non-French writer penned, "Please sir, my I have some more?"

    machine à coudre - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • Many of the country's top CEOs from that same generation have studied outside of France, lived several years abroad, and some even are non-French Ben Verwayen, Chris Viebacher..., which would have been considered an anomaly, if not a heresy, just years ago.

    Felix Marquardt: Le Comeback: How France & the French Model Might Be More Relevant Than Expected in the 21st Century Felix Marquardt 2011

  • On Tuesday Deutsche Bahn ran the first ever non-French train from continental Europe to Britain.

    High-Speed Competition 2010

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