“When a Quebecker is interviewed for French TV, he or she is often subtitled in ‘normal’ French, as if the language they speak in francophone Canada is so barbarous that Parisians won’t be able to understand” — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“This is a very French trait. Today, if a big manufacturing company is in trouble, it will parachute in a graduate of one of… — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“When a Quebecker is interviewed for French TV, he or she is often subtitled in ‘normal’ French, as if the language they speak in… — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be.” — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“In French eyes, it was of course doubly wrong to execute a beautiful woman.” — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“it must have been hard making a silent movie about a girl who hears voices.)” — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“Philippe also brought along musicians - mainly trumpeters and drummers - to scare the enemy. Even then, French music was known to terrify the… — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“Tanacharison (who could relate to the cow because he claimed that the French had boiled and eaten his father),” — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“This is of course the Prince of Wales’s motto to this day, though subsequent princes have not adopted John of Bohemia’s custom of fighting… — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“There is a class of tourists who never seem to see the things they're visiting, I thought. They prefer to look at directions to… — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“The Frenchmen tried to explain that sexual intercourse between males was taboo (despite anything the Brits might have told them about French sailors),” — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
