gah! I hate the new string syntax

[François Granger]

Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:

> (Of course, intentions to
> return are not always carried out

There are a lot of french citizen wich are descendant from italian. At
some point of time we were really welcoming of political refugees. We
are not any more, and I am sorry for this.

We also needed a lot of workers for house building, and italian made a
perfect fit between the world wars. Later we "used" spanish, then north
african...

> -- few are aware, for example,
> that such an icon of French popular culture as Yves Montand was
> Italian -- real name Ivo Livi, born of just-as-Italian parents
> in a village near Florence; his father, a socialist, had to flee
> [and ended up in France] when the Fascists took power, and Ivo,
> as well as the rest of the family, followed him a while later;
> I'm not sure when he changed his citizenship over to France).

And lots of french people are really proud of Yves Montant, knowing or
not his origin as Ivo Livi.

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