The twenty-five crisp and amusing short stories in this collection prove that elementary readings in French can also be entertaining. Some are original anecdotes and others adaptations of traditional French of French-Canadian stories, some are from anonymous sources, and some by acknowledged masters such as LaFontaine. All are distinguished by the classic literary virtue of the French—precision, economy, and the traditional Gallic twist. A delightful series of line drawings by Antje Lingner aptly reflects the spirit of the book. This collection is designed for reading in Grades XI and XII, and for introductory courses at the University or Extension course level. To encourage a quick response and facility in reading, the stories emphasize the idiomatic and rely heavily on dialogue, avoiding as much as possible an over-literary syntax. The text employs elementary vocabulary and constructions throughout and is representative in all respects of the spoken language today. The emphasis on conversational organization in the stories will be immediately apparent, and it is this feature that should be exploited in the classroom and other group situations. On a series of four long-playing records the entire text has been transcribed for use in oral and phonetics classes. The readings are given slowly but naturally and with a relish which catches the drama and humour of the material. The combination of text and recordings offers a most valuable method of acquiring aural familiarity with spoken French. The stories are supplemented with vocabulary, notes and exercises. For each story there is supplied a series of questions that lend themselves to oral answers and discussion; in addition there is a short exercise reviewing grammatical forms, with special emphasis on the verb, as well as a brief passage for prose translation into French.

Ce livre nous appelle à saisir, mais surtout réclamer par la foi les nombreuses promesses de Dieu à notre égard! Marianne Petit-Clerc et Carole Silvera y ont rassemblé quelques unes de leurs multiples expériences de foi avec le Seigneur. Un recueil d’histoires vraies qui sauront toucher et encourager tout ceux qui s’y aventureront! Dans un monde où l’inquiétude est un mal qui ronge, il est bon de trouver le repos et la paix d’esprit auprès de Celui qui tient toujours ses promesses.

Violée à 5, puis 8, puis 26 ans, Françoise s’accroche de toutes ses forces au jonglage pour survivre à ses démons. Enfermée dans un mal-être insupportable, elle jongle avec un, puis deux, puis sept bâtons, et devient championne du monde de Jonglage à Las Vegas à l’âge à 21 ans. Devenue femme, elle accorde aujourd’hui son pardon pour pouvoir vivre en paix avec elle-même, estimant avoir atteint son objectif le plus important, trouver l’Amour d’un homme. Dans ce récit autobiographique, persévérance, dépassement de soi, libération de la parole et reconstruction sont autant d’outils développés pour formuler un message d’espoir, pour s’affranchir du passé et pour, enfin, vivre heureux et en paix – en l’espèce avec son compagnon, avec qui elle forme, sur scène et dans la vie, un duo de choc. Championne du monde de jonglage et inscrite au Livre Guinness des records, Françoise est une jongleuse jusqu’au bout de l’âme depuis près de 40 ans. Elle a été récompensée dans de nombreux Festivals, comme celui du Festival International du Cirque de Monte-Carlo en 2020, à Monaco ou au Festival mondial du cirque de demain à Paris .

Introduction : Humour : a serious issue in contemporary France -- Charlie Hebdo : from controversy to consensus? -- Dieudonné : from anti-racist activism to allegations of anti-Semitism -- Jamel Comedy Club : stand-up comedy à la française? -- Islam and humour: more than just a debate about cartoons.

Soul Survivor explores the depths of human emotions, both real and imagined. That any I of us reach adulthood in one piece, emotionally or physically is a miracle of no small proportion. That any of us reach adulthood to contribute back to society and become highly respected in the community is truly a gift of time and place. Soul Survivor is a true story of fortitude, and iron will and looking to the future in the hope that tomorrow will be better than today. Soul Survivor is nothing less than a story of triumph. "Little Mary" Reese spent her childhood living, working and playing in a funeral home. Her mother, Mrs. Mary ("Big Mary") Reese, was well known and respected in the African-American community in Los Angeles through the operation of a prestigious black funeral home. Little Mary's story tells what really happens behind the embalming room doors- the light and dark side of life. Soul Survivor is both humorous and mischievous, and talks of sex, murder, voodoo, preachers and deviate gravediggers. Famous entertainers that passed through Little Mary's life include Redd Foxx, Lou Rawls, Sam Cooke, Billy Preston and Johnny Cochran. Little Mary was born in 1944 in the South, reared in the Southwest and was often disparagingly referred to as "high-yellow." During racial tensions of the '50s and '60s, Little Mary found her hue to be a major issue but not her only problem. Mary's mother caused her to endure life threatening situations due to her drinking and wild ways. Little Mary’s childhood experiences, the mental and physical abuse faced each day, led her to believe that her only true friends were the dead people in the funeral home. Indeed, Little Mary received a BS degree (Be Smart) at an early age. It was the only way she I knew to survive. Little Mary's story is and unlikely but revealing peek into the unexpected and in the end, truly a story of a Soul Survivor.

A Canadian woman keeps an extraordinary journal of her time in a Parisian studio.

From 1941 to 1943, the Jewish American writer and avant-garde icon Gertrude Stein translated for an American audience thirty-two speeches in which Marshal Philippe Petain, head of state for the collaborationist Vichy government, outlined the Vichy policy barring Jews and other "foreign elements" from the public sphere while calling for France to reconcile with its Nazi occupiers. Why and under what circumstances would Stein undertake such a project? The answers lie in Stein's link to the man at the core of this controversy: Bernard Faÿ, her apparent Vichy protector. Barbara Will outlines the formative powers of this relationship, treating their interaction as a case study of intellectual life during wartime France and an indication of America's place in the Vichy imagination.