June 6, 2005
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Mot Juste?
From today’s New York Times, on the effort of Paris to be chosen as the host of the 2012 Olympics:“‘To have the games would bring a little fun, as you say, a breath of
fresh air,’ said Benoît Génuini, president of the French operation of
Accenture, a global consulting company, on a balcony of the Louvre last
week during an event to highlight the city’s cultural attractions as an
Olympic host. He remarked that the country was morose and that the city
itself had become a sort of museum. ‘The games would put Paris back in
the saddle and lead it into the 21st century,’ he said, ‘get it out of
its stupor.’”
Attributed to Dominique de Villepin, the new Prime Minister of France: words about his book on poetry–“It tries to penetrate the heart of the poetic ferment, this secret
place where words are made and unmade, where language is fashioned.”
Villepin (l.) with President Chirac
