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  • In fact, my own village would no longer be Colombey-les-deux-Églises but would rather come to be known as Colombey-les-deux-mosques.

    Geert Wilders Speech from Copenhagen, June 14th, 2009 GayandRight 2009

  • Compare this to de Gaulle trying out his lycée German as he invited Adenauer to his home at Colombey les deux Églises in the 1960s, or Mitterrand and Kohl roughly pushing Margaret Thatcher to one side to surge ahead with the single market.

    Who's in Charge Here, Anyway? Denis MacShane 2010

  • Compare this to de Gaulle trying out his lycée German as he invited Adenauer to his home at Colombey les deux Églises in the 1960s, or Mitterrand and Kohl roughly pushing Margaret Thatcher to one side to surge ahead with the single market.

    Who's in Charge Here, Anyway? Denis MacShane 2010

  • So, in order to avoid the peasants (that is, you & me) rioting over the availability of bread in the streets of Kettering, Baden-Baden, Colombey-les-deux-églises, Pamplona, Foggia, Wroclaw and so on, a stop will have to be put to the scrapping of farm subsidies and resistance given to further attempts by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to get us to give them up.

    The French Protection 2008

  • So, in order to avoid the peasants (that is, you & me) rioting over the availability of bread in the streets of Kettering, Baden-Baden, Colombey-les-deux-églises, Pamplona, Foggia, Wroclaw and so on, a stop will have to be put to the scrapping of farm subsidies and resistance given to further attempts by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to get us to give them up.

    Archive 2008-04-13 2008

  • My favourite moments: one was the sight of Michael Portillo doing his Colombey-les-deux-églises thing, opining that 44% for the Tories was an inadequate result.

    A Five Lemon Night for Labour Lemon Suckers 2008

  • Compare this to de Gaulle trying out his lycée German as he invited Adenauer to his home at Colombey les deux Églises in the 1960s, or Mitterrand and Kohl roughly pushing Margaret Thatcher to one side to surge ahead with the single market.

    Who's in Charge Here, Anyway? Denis MacShane 2010

  • My favourite moments: one was the sight of Michael Portillo doing his Colombey-les-deux-églises thing, opining that 44% for the Tories was an inadequate result.

    Archive 2008-05-04 2008

  • When he died in 1970, he was buried in the cemetery of Colombey beside his beloved daughter.

    Anne de Gaulle de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • When he died in 1970, he was buried in the cemetery of Colombey beside his beloved daughter.

    Archive 2008-09-14 de Brantigny........................ 2008

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