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  • Asked in an October 2010 interview about how he created the Samsara scent, Mr Guerlain replied using a racial slur - the French term "negre".

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2012

  • Asked in an October 2010 interview about how he created the Samsara scent, Mr Guerlain replied using a racial slur - the French term "negre".

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2012

  • The importance of the author's 'negre' -- the French term for ghost writer -- is explained by Claude Schopp, France's leading Dumas expert, in his Dictionary of Alexandre Dumas out next month.

    Archive 2010-02-14 Bill Crider 2010

  • If memory serves, he speaks of the children of the town who had never seen a black man chasing after him and laughing while shouting "negre".

    Will sensitivity about racism turn racism into a taboo subject? Ann Althouse 2007

  • Philip was particularly upset over the use of the French word 'negre' in the Barack Obama sketch.

    JAM! Showbiz 2009

  • Philip was particularly upset over the use of the French word 'negre' in the Barack Obama sketch.

    CANOE Money 2009

  • In one sketch, comedian Jean-Francois Mercier says, "It would be good to have a" negre "in the White House" because the colour contrast would make it "easier to shoot him."

    Winnipeg Sun 2009

  • The word 'negre' can be translated as 'negro' or 'nigger.'

    JAM! Showbiz 2009

  • The word 'negre' can be translated as 'negro' or 'nigger.'

    CANOE Money 2009

  • Mr. Villaronga ' s latest, " Black Bread " " Pa negre, " 2010, is a piercing adaptation of the Emili Teixidor novel about a child of Republican sympathizers engulfed by ghost stories, devastating betrayals and adolescent emotions.

    Spanish Cinema Magic Kristin M. Jones 2010

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