RSSNOT quite believing what he’d just heard, a journalist once asked General de Gaulle if he really meant to suggest that the French police were stupid, to which the good general genially replied that of course they were, monsieur, they wouldn’t be in the police if they weren’t.
WHAT a summer, eh? I’m beginning to feel that the only way to get a lasting spell of good weather here at home in Brittany would be to frame a photo of some brief sunny period and hang it on the wall.
THEY say that education is what you’ve got left once you’ve forgotten everything you learned at school, but the Year Niner sitting and sweating before the academic Appeals Commission last week clearly wanted to streamline the process by learning as little as possible in the first place.
IT’S summertime, and the living may be easy for some, but not if you’re a French 18-year-old in terminale (upper sixth).
Red tape galore on a red letter day
‘THE chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two people to bear them, sometimes three.’ Thus spoke Alexandre Dumas père, who was also father of Les Trois Mousquetaires.