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21 morcif
n. m. (corr. morceau): This word used to apply predominantly to food, as in manger un morcif: to have a quick snack, but with time has come to replace morceau in the expressions involving that word. -
22 verre
n. m.1. (pl.): 'Specs', 'glasses', spectacles. Sans mes verres, je n'y vois que tchi! I'm as blind as a bat without my specs!3. Manier quelqu'un comme du verre filé: To 'handle someone with kid gloves', to treat someone with great care and respect. (To replace verre filé by verre cassé in the expression is figuratively incorrect. The precautionary care needed when handling spun glass is far removed from the cautionary care needed for broken glass.)4. Pisser du verre pilé (of man): To have 'clap', to suffer from gonorrhoea (also: pisser des lames de rasoir). -
23 Juppé, Alain
(born 1945)conservative politician, Foreign Minister 1993 - 1995, Prime Minister of France from 1995 to 1997, under President Jacques Chirac. In 2004 Juppé was convicted of mishandling public funds, and retired from public life. To the surprise of many, he nevertheless retained the confidence and support of many of his supporters and political stablemates, including Chirac, and in 2006 began a political comeback, being reelected as mayor of Bordeaux.. In 2007, he was briefly minister for the environment, but resigned from this job after failing to get reelected to parliament by voters in his Bordeaux constituency, a city of which he remains mayor. He returned to government in March 2011, recalled by Nicolas Sarkozy to replace Foreign Secretary Michèle Aliot Marie, who was ousted following revelations of her dealings with former but recently ousted North African leaders.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Juppé, Alain
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24 Minitel
A first generation computerised videotext system, the Minitel briefly put France into the position of world leader in videotext access. Launched in 1982, the Minitel system rapidly entered the majority of French households and offices thanks to a masterly government policy of offering the basic terminals free to all telephone subscribers. Several years before the Internet explosion, the Minitel offered French telephone subscribers free access to a range of information services, including national telephone directories; it also offered a number of pay-per-view services, receipts from which were designed to help pay back the investment in the system. However, the success of the Minitel was also instrumental in slowing down France's uptake of the Internet. While the government remained keen to protect and promote this French technological success in the face of competition from a foreign system, many Minitel service providers also had a good reason to defend the system too. Provision of information via the Minitel, charged by the second, rapidly became seen as a lucrative activity (notably for the " Minitel rose" sites) - far more so than via Internet, where most general information is provided free of charge to the viewer. This economic disincentive meant that many major French providers of Information, such as the SNCF, were reluctant to replace, or even complement, slow but profit-making Minitel services by faster free Internet services - thus delaying French uptake of the Internet.Minitel services were completely phased out in 2011.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Minitel
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25 remplacer
displace, fill in, replace, stand in, take the place of
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