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Q3Naccarato#3 On Thursday a man died in a Parisian hospital of rabies.He was diagnosed on April 2nd. This was the first death from rabies in France in the past 10 years. The last person to die who contracted the disease in France was recorded in 1924. All other cases and deaths have been contracted from overseas.

Q3Naccarato#2 On Saturday the first woman mayor of Paris was announced. She is a Spanish migrant that was naturalized at the age of 14. She is 54 years old now. She came from an underprivileged family who fled France from poverty and worked hard to attain this position.

Q3Naccarato#1 There was an earthquake in southern France recently. The earthquake was measured at a level 5 magnitude. It happened at 9:27 in the morning. They believe this rare earthquake was caused because the African and European tectonic plates were moving.

Q1Scott#4 François Hollande ne dispensera pas les jouers de football     professionnels      de l'impôt. Il y avait 75% de l'impôt sur le revenu. Il a dit pas d'exceptions.

Q1Scott#5 Des millions         appels     de le France vers les Etats-Unis. Le    Premier ministre     a declaré qu'il était profondément choque. 70 millions d'appels aux États-Unis.

Q1Naccarato#8 A 55 year old     French man      named Marc Kopp took a sky dive over Mount Everest. The Man has suffered from    Multiple Sclerosis     for over 10 years. He wants his dive to inspire others with MS.

Q1Naccarato#7 Some of France's citizens are taking a stand for animal rights. As of now the law states that animals are considered     personal      property. The proposed law would suggest that they are "living, sensitive beings". Punishments are applied now, but not to the severity that they should be.

Q1Naccarato#6 Shoppers in Paris are upset because of the ban on Sunday     shopping hours. The ban is for non-     food retailers. Most citizens of France are upset because of the     work hours      they could receive. Many also believe that having retailers open on Sundays would help the French economy.

Q1Naccarato#5 Un cheval est mort des loups. Les loups blessé un second cheval.Les agriculteurs ne sont pas contents.

Q1Naccarato#4 Police en France sont plus sérieux. Ils donner ont plus de pénalité s. Le temps de Noël sera plus regard é.

Q1Naccarato#3 Edith Piaf was an international French singer. She died almost 50 years ago on October 10, 1963. She sang about going through     life      and facing your problems. Piaf struggled with     drug and alcohol          addiction. She was a huge after war star. Piaf passed away at age 47 to    liver cancer.

Q1Naccarato#2 Parisian     high school students      began protesting for the second time on Friday. They are protesting because the country deporting    foreign students. This started when a    Roma      student    was expelled from her school and was deported along with her family. Since the event an outrage has spread.

Q1Naccarato#1

France is proposing a law that would keep     children born      by non-French parents from earning immediate French     citizenship. This would apply for the children of parents     living in France          legally     and illegally. According to the law now, when a child turns 18 and is born to French citizens, they gain automatic citizenship as long as they have lived in France for the last 5 years.

Q1Cerciello#1 Parisian Communist Ian Brossat claims he would tear down the Sacré-Coeur to replace it with a "solidarity space". This church sits at the top of a hill in Montmartre, and is one of the capital's most visited and cherished landmarks. It was built as a punishment for the supporters of the Paris Commune, and Brossat doesn't like that symbolism. His comment about tearing the church down comes right after the Paris Commune said they would support Anne Hidalgo in the mayoral election next year.

Q1Cerciello#2 Some of the top football clubs in France may go on strike this weekend. This sudden announcement came about in protest at plans to tax earnings of over a million euros at 75 percent. France's Union of Professional Football Clubs fears that this new tax will steer some of the best players away. If there isn't a     change      in their decisions about the tax, some of the best leagues intend to boycott.

Q1Cerciello#3 French authorities have always been aware that the United States National Security Agency has been intercepting phone calls in France for quite some time now. A new outrage has risen as the US recorded 70.3 million pieces of French telephone data between December 10, 2012 and January 8, 2013. They were listening in for terrorists and even business people. This is not the first time the United States has been accused of spying in France.

Q1Cerciello#4 Emile Louis est mort dimanche 20 octobre 2013. Il a tué sept jeunes femmes. Il a conduit le bus elles ont utilisé dans Burgundy.

Q1Cerciello#5 Joel and Ethan Coen ont reçu l'honneur à Paris. Ils font les films. Plusieurs films sont "Barton Fink", "No Country for Old Men", et "Inside Llewyn Davis". Genres de films sont comédie et crime.

Q1Streeter#1 On Friday October 18th, an armed man took four people hostage at a bank in Paris. Two teams of police and a negotiator tried reasoning with the armed man. Eventually he released all of the hostages and surrendered to the police.

Q1Streeter#2 The Paris Fashion week started last month in Paris, France. Editors and Fashionistas attended 97 official shows over a seven day time period. This fashion show presented the trends for the spring and summer of 2014.

Q1Streeter#3 A communist in Paris believes that if he was mayor, the Sacré-Coeur would be closed down and a “solidarity space” would be put in its place. This church was built as a symbol of punishment for the supporters of the Paris Commune. The man Ian Brossat sees the Sacré-Coeur as representation of morals and religion.

Q1Streeter#4 Là est été une avion accident. Quarante-quatre les gens sont morts. Sept les gens etaient français.

Q1Streeter#5 Emile Louis est mort à 79 age. Il a tué sept les femmes. Il a eu mal à se femme.

Q1Russell#1 Le parlement français a interdit concours de beauté pour les jeunes filles. Concours français sont plus conservateur que les concours américains. L’objectif était reproduire l'égalité des sexes.

Q1Russell#2 Air France se propose couper 2,800 emplois. Il essaie retourner à la rentabilité. Air France resist avec une faiblesse de l'économie et la hausse du chômage.

Q1Russell#3 France’ s Constitutional Council approved a ban on fracking. This ban was passed by the Paliament over environmental concerns. Schuepbach Energy challenged this ban because it eliminated two of their permits in southern France.

Q1Russell#4 French magistrates are dropping an investigation into charges that Nicolas Sarkozy manipulated a fragile heiress into financing his 2007 campaign. The Bettencourt Affair was a mixture of allegations of embezzlement and financial malfeasance with people connected to Liliane Bettencourt, heiress to the L’Or é al fortune. It was said that Sarkozy took advantage of Bettencourt’s mental frailty to receive financial pledges for his campaign.

Q1Russell#5 French lawmakers passed a law aimed at Amazon to help protect local bookshops. This law prohibits online booksellers from offering free delivery to customers along with a five percent discount on books. This law is part of France’s regulation on book prices and curbs on discounting, which all aim to protect local bookshops from supermarket chains.

Q1Cole#1 Un homme a pris quatre personnes. Il avait des armes. Ils é taient dans une banque à Paris. Trois des quatre otages é t é ont lib é r é s.

Q1Cole#2 Il est de nouvelles r égles pour les taxis. Le gouvernment a imposé la nouvelle règle. Propiétaires faut attendre avant de l’envoyer et la réservation d’un véhicule. Ils pensent il est injuste.

Q1Cole#3 French councils have decided that mayors cannot prohibit same-sex marriage. This was a ruling against mayors who have decided to prohibit the same-sex legalization act that was passed in France. The legalization of same-sex marriage became legal in May of 2014. The mayors argued that it was against their moral or religious beliefs.

Q1Cole#4 A French court has sentenced a man to three years in prison after beating and raping his wife. Under police recommendation, she filed a report after she was detained because authorities noticed the bruises on her face. She was worried many would not believe her case. Nearly four years later, her ex-husband was found guilty for the charges filed against him.

Q1Cole#5 Neo-Nazi, Kristian Vickernes, was convicted of murder and burning of churches in his home  country of Norway. He was put on trial in France. He is charged with crimes against humanity. He has incited racial hate crimes. He was accused of plotting a terrorist attack.

Q1Scott#1 In an interview, the former wife of Sarkozy praised the work of Michelle Obama. She also pushed for a more influential role for the first lady of France. She hopes to adopt official framework for the role of the husband or wife for the country’s president. She says that in France, the president’s wife has no status.

Q1Scott#2 The killer of an Anglo-Iraqi businessman, his wife and mother-in-law in the French Alps last year, escaped by motorcycle and had an accomplice reports say. The news interviewed with the killers brother. The brother has protested innocence.

Q1Scott#3 France’ s top football clubs employ the wealthiest professionals. The clubs are going on strike this weekend. Government plants to impose 75% tax on earnings over one million euros. The club plans that if there isn’t a u-turn this week, clubs in both Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 will boycott Saturday and Sunday’s events.

Q2Scott#1 One man has died and many others are injured after an explosion in Paris. The explosion was in an auditoruim. Nobody knows why the explosion happened. A wall and the ceiling coloapsed.

Q2Scott#2 Al Qaeda said that the murdering of two french journalists was a retaliation for all the "daily killings." The two murders took place in northern Mali. Abdelkrim al-Targui, an AQIM commander, took responsibility for the attacks.

Q2Scott#3 The police in france have released a sketch of a man that they have been searching for. He killed a UK family, and a french cyclist in 2012. The police seem to think that the cyclist was a innocent bystander who was just founf dead on the scene.

Q2Scott#4 Ghesquière replaçant Marc Jacob à Louis Vuitton. Il a été nommé le nouveua directeur artistigue de la collection de la femme. Marc après 16 ans d'être directeur. Q2Scott#5 Français espion romancier mort à 83 années. De Villiers était romancier en France. Il venait de publier son roman 20th.

Q2Cole#1 A summit on peace was held on December 6th in Paris. The president, François Hollande hosted nearly 40 African leaders. They are focusing on peace and security in Africa due to France sending out their second military intervention. They are being authorized to use force to protect civilians.

Q2Cole#2 La police a arrêté 45 criminels. Il faut qu’ils soient sûr. Les criminels vendent des armes. 38 criminels sont mis en prison.

Q2Cole#3 Bob Dylan était en France. Il est accusé de racime. Il a critiqué Croatians. Il a comparé Croatians et les nazis.

Q2Cole#4 The French court ruled E cigarettes as a tobacco product. They can only legally be sold by licensed sellers. This will force many shops focused on selling these cigarettes to be put out of business. Tobacco products are only to be sold at registered outlets.

Q2Cole#5 Jean-Claude Mas, founder of Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP), a faulty breast implant company was put on trial. These implants were filled with industrial silicone and were reported to be easily ruptured. These were sold to 300,000 women in 65 countries. He is found guilty on aggravated assault fraud and is sentenced to prison for four years.

Q2Cole#6 In 2011, France banned wearing full-face veils in public. On Wednesday, French courts will hear arguments opposing the ban. Lawyers argue that this ban is unconstitutional. Cassandra Belin, a Muslim woman living in France, was arrested for wearing one of these full-face veils.

Q2Russell#1 Similaire à l'Amérique, la France a participé dans la surveillance électronique. Récemment, le législateur français a accepté une loi de la surveillance électronique. Les critiques ont eu paur que la loi augmenterait la sureveillance électronique de les petits commerces et les maisons.

Q2Russell#2 Un travailleur de soins a arrêté récemment. Elle a accusé d'empoisonnement les neuf résidents. Elle leur a donné médicaments d'ordonnance.

Q2Russell#3 The Central African Republic crisis is proving more extreme than France anticipated. President Hollande's goal was to quickly remove troops and restore order, but the growing intensity between Christian and Muslim groups is proving too much. Diplomats fear that the mayhem is so extreme that it will be very difficult for France to repair the nation.

Q2Russell#4 Independent producer, Red, of some hit TV shows has sold a majority stake to Studiocanal, a French film and TV company. This is the French company's first experience with the UK TV production sector. This deal is supposed to be of great value to the UK firm.

Q2Russell#5 A French court is going to begin hearing arguments for a case that challenges the legality of banning face veils. Lawyers argue that the 2011 ban on wearing full-face veils is discriminatory. Even though all face masks are banned, laws and officials target the veils that are worn by Islamic people.

Q3Russell#1 Un café dans la France donne les réductions aux clients de politesse. Le directeur a voulu punir les clients impolis. Si les clients sont gentils, ils reçoivent les réductions sur le café.

Q3Russell#2 Une maison de vente aux enchères françaises a vendu des artefacts amérindiens. Il a vendu des nombreux masques Hopi. Les objets ont vendus rapidement.

Q3Russell#3 A luxury jewelry store was robbed near the iconic Place Vendome in Paris. The raiders managed to take some luxury watches valued at over one million dollars. The robbers had handguns and threatened the shop's employees.

Q3Russell#4 President Hollande had prostate surgery, which was confirmed by Elysée Palace. This information has relaunched a debate over whether the public has the right to know about the head of the state's health. French leaders have always assumed their right to privacy over matters concerning health.

Q3Russell#5 Jean-Claude Beton, an Algerian-born Frenchman, has recently died at age 88. He turned Orangina into a global brand through inspired advertising. His company rivaled some American soft-drink giants.

Q2Cerciello#1 Le ballet de Paris exécute "Sleeping Beauty". Rudolf Nureyev a écrit "Sleeping Beauty" en 1890 pour le ballet de Kirov. Le thème du ballet est bien contre mal.

Q2Cerciello#2 Pascal and Johannes Denize ont acheté une maison dans Brittany. Les meubles de IKEA n'ont pas délivré. Pascal et Johannes ont habité dans un lit et petit-déjeuner.

Q2Cerciello#3 The unemployment rate in France rose 0.5% in November. This means approximately 3,293,000 people are without a job. The raise in the rate is in contrast to October when France saw its unemployment rate fall slightly for the first time in two years. The rise hurts President Hollande's image of vowing to bring down unemployment. The government is relying on policies to boost government-funded jobs.

Q2Cerciello#4 A train carrying nuclear waste derailed in a Paris suburb on Monday. The train had been traveling slowly and went off of the track about 50 centimeters. Experts carried out several radiological tests and didn't find any leaks. No injuries were reported after the accident either.

Q2Cerciello#5 On Wednesday, December 18, doctors in Paris successfully transplanted an artificial heart to a 75-year-old man. The artificial heart came from the French biomedical firm Carmat. The heart uses soft biomaterial and sensors to mimic a contracting heart, and its aim is to reduce the possibility of blood clots or rejection by the immune system. Because the transplant was successful, the stock value of Carmat climbed more than 30 percent. France sees this as a much-needed boost in its medical industry.

Q3Cerciello#1 Le directeur du Parisian théâtre a poussé en Elyseé Palace. Il a protesté coupes de l'argent. Il a eu petites blessures.

Q3Cerciello#2 Un homme et une femme sont morts. Ils ont tiré au Café Chineur dimanche soir. L'homme avec le fusil est parti.

Q3Cerciello#3 Due to poor yields in producer countries and the want for a higher cocoa content in chocolate, the supply of cocoa hasn't been able to keep up with the demand. Prices for chocolate in some markets are 40 percent higher than they were at this time last year. The chocolate business provides more than 4,000 jobs for the Swiss. It earns Switzerland 1.6 billion Swiss francs in revenue, approximately half of it in exports alone. Production isn't meeting the quickly growing demand for chocolate.

Q3Cerciello#4 UBS, a Swiss bank, has decided to combine its currency, interest rates, and credit trading business into a single unit. It is in an effort to shrink the investment bank and shift the focus away from risky trading activities. Overall, the bank cut 10,000 jobs last year. The operation is being led by Chris Murphy and George Athanasopoulos. The second biggest bank in Switzerland, Credit Suisse, announced a similar operation earlier in the month. They combined the foreign exchange and rates and commodities business. The bank cut positions in its fixed income business.

Q3Cerciello#5 A French telecommunications company, Orange, agreed to sell its Dominican Republic operations to Luxembourg's Altice company. It was sold for $1.4 billion. This will strengthen Altice in the Caribbean, where it provides cable television and cell phone service to Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana.

Q2Streeter#1 The French Senate voted to ban beauty pageants for kids under the age of sixteen. An adult who tries to enter their child in a pageant that is under the age of 16 will face a 30,000 euro-fine and up to two years in prison. They senators believe this new amendment will help protect younger children from being sexualized. They believe that the heavy use of makeup, extravagant clothing, and high heeled shoes does nothing but make the girls believe that their worth is based only on their outward appearance.

Q2Streeter#2 Raphaël Dinelli is a 44 year old who has a thrill for adventure. He plans to fly a plane, named Eraole, from Paris to New York in 2015. The catch is that his airplane will only be run on sunshine and seaweed. He hopes that this plane will be the first to not leave a carbon footprint behind.

Q2Streeter#3 Recently after Colorado legalized marijuana in the United States, French scientists discovered that there was a way to decrease the harmful effects of marijuana “high”. There is a hormone that actually stops the euphoria which is started by THC. THC is the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. This discovery will help doctors and scientists treat marijuana addictions and intoxications.

Q2Streeter#4 Georges Vandenbeusch etait de prendre. Il est allé à Nigeria. Il a dormi en une tente.

Q2Streeter#5

Le restaurant a ouvert avant le Noël. Le cuisinier aimes les légumes. Le restaurant est très bien.

Q2Naccarato#1

France's highest administrative court banned a comedian named Dieudonné from performing. They say that his acts are ant-Semitic Hollande even backed the ban saying, "No one should be able to use this show for provocation and to promote openly anti-Semitic ideas." Dieudonné is only 47 and has been fined multiple times for hate crimes.

Q2Naccarato#2

The French senate has just passed a new bill saying that any online book retailers could not offer a free delivery service. This bill is to protect the small business booksellers from being pushed down. Online book sales have increased from 3.2% in 2003 to now 17% in 2013.

Q2Naccarato#3

Angry workers at Goodyear France held two members of their senior management captive for about 30 hours this week. They wanted a higher pay. Their only punishment by the government was a fine of 1,500 euros each.

Q2Naccarato#4

Michael Schumacher est un racer. Il skiait sur le Alpes françaises. Schumacher est tombé.

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En 1944, il y avait un massacre. Six cent quarante-deux hommes et femmes sont mortes. Un quatre vingt huit ans Nazi est accusé.

q1funka#1 After a horrific earthquake, in Haiti, the body of a respected Mountie was uncovered in the debris. In honor of Sgt. Mark Gallagher a vocational school was developed. Even though fundraising was a large obstacle Sgt. Mark Gallagher Memorial Vocational School was finally built.