/continuingstudies/fr/taxonomy/term/950/all fr /continuingstudies/fr/channels/event/great-peace-montreal-333883 <h3><a href="http://great-peace.eventbrite.ca/"><img src="/continuingstudies/files/continuingstudies/004-09-21-bicentennial_thegreatpeaceofmontreal_fb_2.jpeg" style="height:100%; width:100%" /></a></h3> <div> <div> <div></div></div></div> Mon, 04 Oct 2021 16:05:49 +0000 david.kynan@mcgill.ca 10866 at /continuingstudies /continuingstudies/fr/channels/event/great-peace-montreal-333595 <p><a href="https://great-peace.eventbrite.ca/"><img src="/continuingstudies/files/continuingstudies/004-09-21-bicentennial_thegreatpeaceofmontreal_fb_1.jpeg" style="height:385px; width:735px" /></a></p> Thu, 23 Sep 2021 13:23:58 +0000 david.kynan@mcgill.ca 10850 at /continuingstudies /continuingstudies/fr/article/brief-history-frenglish <p>When I was around twelve years old and had only recently started to learn French in school, I made the following startling discovery: little French kids were way more sophisticated than little English kids. In one of the <em>Oncle Picsou (Uncle Scrooge)</em> comics sent to me by a friend of my father’s who thought I could understand them, I consistently discovered that Riri, Loulu, and Fifi (far fancier than Huey, Duey and Louie, you will agree) demonstrated dazzling verbal dexterity in response to the most banal daily occurrences.</p> Tue, 30 Apr 2019 21:03:40 +0000 Roy Cartlidge 8639 at /continuingstudies