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Emma Jane Kirby, In Paris, the customer is not always right; The idea of
service is taken very seriously in France where any feeling of subservience
is strongly resisted. BBC (English), Feb. 6, 2010.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8500246.stm

Note:
(a) stupefy (vt): ASTONISH
(b) waspish (adj): "resembling a wasp in behavior; especially : SNAPPISH,
PETULANT"
(c) boulangerie (n; French): "a bakery that specializes in baking and
selling bread"  www.dictionary.com
(d) brioche
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brioche
(e) cornet (n; diminutive of "corn" hone; from Latin cornu): "something
shaped like a cone: as a : a piece of paper twisted for use as a containe"

All definitions are from www.m-w.com, except (c).


Note: The Chinese-language version:

埃玛∙简∙科尔比, 记者来鸿： 体验法国人的傲慢. BBC Chinese, Feb.
12, 2010.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/world/2010/02/100212_fooc_paris_customer.shtml


--------------Separately
Europe's booming spaceport and its Amazon neighbours; The European rocket
launch site in French Guiana may have become the world's most important
commercial satellite spaceport, but Sue Nelson finds that its boom is
alienating the locals. BBC (English), Jan. 28, 2010.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8483626.stm
("Kourou's spaceport now launches six out of 10 commercial satellites" of
the world)

Note:
(a) Ariane (rocket family)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_(rocket_family)
("The name comes from the French spelling of the [Greek] mythological
character Ariadne"--the latter, Ariadne, is English spelling)
(b) Ariane 5 ECA
http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Launchers_Access_to_Space/SEM0LR2PGQD_0.html

Why ECA? It is not explained.

(c) The Chinese-language version:

苏∙纳尔逊, 记者来鸿：重游库鲁航天中心. BBC Chinese, Feb. 5, 2010.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/world/2010/02/100205_fooc_spaceport.shtml


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