He is not an American but a Frenchman.

I have to kill a Frenchman when I come back at home?

I came here to speak about ecology, and I emitted as much CO2 as a Frenchman in one year.

As a Frenchman, I must say that there are a lot of French intellectuals that think happiness is not at all interesting.

As a Frenchman, I cannot wait for the next World Cup match between France and Germany. But I want France to avenge its defeat at the last World Cup in Seville, not its defeat at Verdun.

In 1713, another Catholic Frenchman, Charles Irénée Castel, abbé de Saint Pierre, published his Project for Perpetual Peace in Europe. There would be a European senate, a European army, and the larger member states would have equal voting rights.

And she pulled back, threw down her arms, put them on her hips, turned around and yelled across the room, This guy is built like a god damned mountain of muscle, and he's grabbing me like a fucking Frenchman, which I found encouraging.

Similarly, the widely respected governor of Ireland s central bank, Patrick Honohan, spent nearly a decade at the World Bank in Washington, DC. One of Honohan s deputies is a Swede with experience at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority the other is a Frenchman.

It was and remains much more profitable to retire earlier in Europe than in the US. Why should a Frenchman or Italian in his early sixties work today, when in the 1990's he could have retired in his mid fifties with 80 or more of his last working age salary?

Indeed, London s Arsenal football club is composed entirely of foreigners, including a French coach. Even the captain roles are no longer reserved for domestic players Thierry Henry, a Frenchman, is Arsenal s captain, Andriy Shevchenko, a Ukrainian, was often the captain of AC Milan and will play next year for the English champions Chelsea.

Even the captain roles are no longer reserved for domestic players Thierry Henry, a Frenchman, is Arsenal s captain, Andriy Shevchenko, a Ukrainian, is often the captain of AC Milan, and Christiano Zanetti, an Argentine, is captain of Inter Milan. Similarly, dozens of South Americans and Africans play in Russian, Turkish, Polish, and various Southeast European leagues.

Clubs, too, often used to command tribal loyalty along ethnic or religious lines, depending on their location in large industrial cities Irish clubs versus Jewish clubs in London, for example, or Protestants versus Catholics in Glasgow. Who would have predicted thirty years ago that British soccer fans would have cheered for a London team full of Africans, Latin Americans, and Spaniards, coached by a Frenchman?

That sort of responsiveness to popular sentiment in the legislative process gives the lie to the canard that French regulation is inflexible and hopelessly bureaucratic. In fact, the free market Anglo Saxon attitude sounds like nothing so much as the old prejudices about the French that have been around since the novelist Thackeray told English readers The Frenchman has after his soup a dish of vegetables, where you have one of meat.