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2005-03-16 Europe

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Posted by tu3031 2005-03-16 11:45:51 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Some ~~idiot~~ are ranting because the elction will nominate the "top ten" (in English) gratest French.

AbbÃ© Pierre is not a campaigning monk. He has created a charity who provides work to people, before that he created an organization foir sheltering the homeless in the terribly cold 1954 winter. Before that he was in the Resistance providing spiritual succour to a maquis group. His group was anihilated nearly to a man.

Posted by JFM 2005-03-16 12:23:52 PM|| 2005-03-16 12:23:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Where's Jean-Claude Killy? He managed to get me, a poor Texas boy from the flatlands, interested in skiing, lol!

Nowadays, well without Jean Reno, I'm not interested. He's a class act(or).

Posted by .com 2005-03-16 12:31:42 PM|| 2005-03-16 12:31:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Where's Pepe LePew? Much sexier than Gerard Depardieu.

Posted by ed 2005-03-16 12:34:32 PM|| 2005-03-16 12:34:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Pepe gets my vote. Second would be LaBeau from the series Hogans Heroes.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2005-03-16 2:17:13 PM|| 2005-03-16 2:17:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 THey forgot "Le Petomane". He was an attraction at Moulin Rouge at end of XIXth century. He played the Marseillaise with his rear wind instrumant.

Posted by JFM 2005-03-16 2:21:38 PM|| 2005-03-16 2:21:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 What about Kermit?

Posted by Tom 2005-03-16 2:24:01 PM|| 2005-03-16 2:24:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 how about Marshall Petain?

or if we allow French Canadians, how about these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Dragqueens.jpg

Posted by mhw 2005-03-16 2:51:31 PM|| 2005-03-16 2:51:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I thought Marie Curie was Polish, not French. (She married a French guy)

I second Le Petomane!

Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-03-16 2:52:13 PM|| [http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2005-03-16 2:52:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I vote for Henry V.

Posted by Bill Nelson 2005-03-16 3:23:36 PM|| 2005-03-16 3:23:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Wasn't Le Petomane the governor in "Blazing Saddles"? (i.e.: Mel Brooks)

Posted by Dr August Balls of Nice 2005-03-16 4:01:53 PM|| 2005-03-16 4:01:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 The good Dr, his character was named in homage of the one, the only fartiste.

Wonder if he could toot Le Marseillaise?

Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-03-16 4:13:16 PM|| [http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2005-03-16 4:13:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 DB: Yes. Her name was something like Slodowski. She wasn't French by birth, but she decided to move there. How sick is that?

Posted by Jackal 2005-03-16 4:19:32 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-03-16 4:19:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 What about Aris?

Posted by Jacques Chiraq 2005-03-16 4:26:31 PM|| 2005-03-16 4:26:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Seriously, Pasteur deserves to be in the top 10. Maybe even #1. Other than that...?

Lafayette (I'll be he gets zero votes in France).
Jules Verne.
Alexandre Dumas.
Cyrano de Bergerac.
Lavoisier.
Charles Martel perhaps? Or do Franks count?

Posted by Jackal 2005-03-16 4:27:55 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-03-16 4:27:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Alain Proust

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-16 4:38:24 PM|| 2005-03-16 4:38:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Rene Descartes

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-16 4:45:42 PM|| 2005-03-16 4:45:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Mrs. Davis, That is my cat's name! It's she, though. She told me that her name is Rene Descartes in a dream.
Which would be kinda keeping with tradition--The Discourse on Method came to RD in a dream and the key to it was obtained in a dream within dream.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-03-16 4:55:42 PM|| 2005-03-16 4:55:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Jackal, she moved there for love. At least, that's what the romantic in me would like to believe.
But in all fairness, there was more scientific study being done in France back then. That was probably a big factor, too.

Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-03-16 5:04:54 PM|| [http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2005-03-16 5:04:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 "Le Petomane" - wasn't he the Gov in Blazing Saddles? I vote for him.

Posted by Xbalanke 2005-03-16 5:40:57 PM|| 2005-03-16 5:40:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 That was the smart one. He emigrated.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-16 5:56:10 PM|| 2005-03-16 5:56:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 William the Conqueror. He "emigrated" too.

Posted by Zpaz 2005-03-16 7:42:19 PM|| 2005-03-16 7:42:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 My vote is for JFM. He's stuck there in La Belle France, but manages to find his way to the 'Burg every day. Salute!

Posted by Seafarious 2005-03-16 7:52:09 PM|| 2005-03-16 7:52:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 Uh, weren't the Franks basically Germans, so that would rule out Charlemange and his pretty little capital in Aachen...wait...they're all capitulators.

Never mind.

Posted by Armchair in Sin 2005-03-16 7:59:23 PM|| 2005-03-16 7:59:23 PM|| Front Page Top

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