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The DC Traveler

March 10th, 2007

Parlez-vous français ? Grande Fête de la Francophonie

For you non-French speaking people (like me) that roughly translates to the Big Party of the French-speaking World.
French is the official language in 41 countries throughout Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and South America, and the second most frequently taught language after English. It’s also the official or administrative language of NATO, the World Trade Organization, the […]

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February 6th, 2007

Party on the Island of Flowers…Martinique

First discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493, he didn’t land on the island of Martinique until his fourth trip to the New World. The island was not colonized until almost 50 years later when a small group of French settlers started its first colony. The island has been a French possession ever since.
The island’s name Martinique, […]

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January 11th, 2007

French Jazz Violinist – Didier Lockwood at the French Embassy

If jazz violinists Jean-Luc Ponty and Stéphane Grappelli ever had a spiritual son, it would be Didier Lockwood.
Born in Calais, France in 1956, he initially studied classical violin. But after hearing the rock-blues of artist such as Johnny Winter and John Mayall in the mid-1970s, he started jazz-rock group. Developing his own style, his sound […]

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