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I was surprised to read David Smith Africa's burgeoning middle class, 26 December give such uncritical attention to La Cité du Fleuve in Kinshasa, which most Congolese view as a vast vanity project for a tiny elite who have grown rich through a dysfunctional economy.
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Had a lovely time in the Fleuve Noir office this morning, meeting up with all the lovely folk who are supporting my entry to the French publishing scene.
Updqte from Paris karenmiller 2008
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Forget that ice hockey (along with soccer, it's the most-played sport in the world) was invented near Montreal, by British soldiers batting around puck-like objects on the frozen St. Lawrence River (La Fleuve San Laurent).
Bill Mann: Hockey's Les Canadiens Far More Than Just Another Sports Team 2010
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I go into the Fleuve Noir office this morning, then we train it to Nantes this afternoon.
Updqte from Paris karenmiller 2008
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Yonder go a crowd of bare-legged fishermen; there is the town idiot, mocking a woman who is screaming “Fleuve du Tage,” at an inn-window, to a harp, and there are the little gamins mocking HIM.
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Yet, although he begins by doubting that the Coango and the Zaire are the same waters, he ends by recognizing the fact, and his map justly lays down the Fleuve
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Je viens du papier (publication régulière de nouvelles classées "X" en recueil collectif - Edition Blanche, La Bartavelle, La Musardine ... - et un petit roman urbain, N'importawaque, aux éditions Fleuve Noir).
Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert
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O, Fleuve du Tage, Miss Maria cried; we have the song, and went off to fetch the book in which it was.
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These branches, known to the French colonists as the Fleuve antérieur and the Fleuve postérieur — subdivide in turn, and form the network of streams which are the chief means of communication between the various commercial centres of Cochin China and Cambodia.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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"Notes sur le mollusques terrestres de la vallée du Fleuve Bleu" (188 pages of text and 32 plates).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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