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troubadours

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

Tunisia

Turkey, efforts to protect the culture of

Turner, William

TV5

its accomplishments

UNESCO.
See
Convention on Cultural Diversity (UNESCO)

Union culturelle française

the Union française

the United Kingdom.
See also
British; English

nuanced feelings for the French in

the United Nations

emphasizes English for managers

founding of

Universal Israelite Alliance.
See
Alliance israélite universelle (AIU)

Université Cheikh Anta Diop

universities (French).
See also
the Sorbonne

cultural diplomacy of

problems within

urbanization, importance of for minority language survival

U Tam’si, Gérard-Felix Tchicaya

Vallières, Pierre

Vandals

Van Gogh, Victor

Vanuatu

Vaucanson, Jacques de.
See
de Vaucanson, Jacques

Vaugelas, Claude Favre de

verlan,

Verne, Jules

Vianney, Jean-Noël

Vike-Freiberga, Vaira

Vikings

Villepin, Dominique de.
See
de Villepin, Dominique

Voltaire

his importance in France

Wace, Robert

Wade, Abdoulaye

Wahl, Jacques

Walch, Agnès

Walloon (dialect of
d’oïl
)

Walpole, Horace

Walter, Henriette

war, its role in the spread of language

Wells, H.G.

William the Conqueror

Williams, Robin

Wilson, Woodrow

Wolfe, James

Wolof (language)

women, their status in Enlightenment France

World Trade Organization (WTO)

Yehuda, Eliezer Ben

Zaire

Zein, Fady

Zeldin, Theodore

Zola, Émile

Partners in life and in writing, Canadian journalist-authors JEAN-BENOÎT NADEAU and JULIE BARLOW are award-winning contributors to Quebec’s national news magazine
L’actualité.
Their writing has appeared in many publications, including the
Christian Science Monitor,
the
International Herald Tribune,
and the
Courrier international.
In 2003, Nadeau and Barlow published their critical and popular success,
Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong.
They live in Montreal.

Notes

1
Translated by Brigitte Cazelles

2
Unless otherwise noted, all translations are by the authors.

THE STORY OF FRENCH.
Copyright © 2006 by Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Nadeau, Jean-Benoît.