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Archive for July, 2009

France à l’Envers

When I was growing up, once I knew how to spell, my parents had the ingenious idea to teach me Pig Latin.  For those of you who don’t know what Pig Latin is, it’s a way of creating a sort of “secret language” by transforming English words into seemingly gibberish sounds unless you know the formula for creating the words.  In [...]

How Many Constitutions?

France is generally regarded as the birthplace of democracy in Europe.  Although the 1789 French Revolution is considered by many as the spark that lit the fire of European democratization and the propagation of fundamental concepts such as equality or human rights across the continent, the French Republic itself has had a very turbulent history of trying to maintain its core democratic [...]

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