Reply #98: Louis Jourdan, wine AND cheese, bread, parfum de Joy, and

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the trip I hope, someday, perhaps to take en bateau through the Loire valley - all those chateaux (if I'm lucky and can try to save a WHOLE LOTTA pennies)! YUM! I love the idea that a Frenchman was the second captain of the Enterprise in "Star Trek" (Jean-Luc Picard in "Star Trek: The Next Generation," even though he was played by - and SURE sounded like - an Englishman), I love French pastry and French chocolate, I love the lilting music of the French language (the only language that sounds - to me - like you're having sex, just by speaking), I love the wild ideas of the French designers, I love Claude Monet and other French impressionists, the poster art of Toulouse-Lautrec, the Louvre and all its treasures, I love the singing of Maurice Chevalier, French champagne (Mum Cordon Rouge - not that I indulge that often, however), I love the children's book "Eloise in Paris," I love the Eiffel Tower and the courage of the French Underground. I love that they gave us the Statue of Liberty, I love the heroism of the Storming of the Bastille, and I love that the president of FRANCE was the FIRST world leader to make a bee-line here to offer support and sympathy after 9/11. The knuckledraggers conveniently forget all of that.