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John Kerry

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4. This was particularly nice

Reply to mylye2222 (Reply #3)

Sun Jun 8, 2014, 04:53 PM

Jun 2014

So much warmth and affection, all around.
The 93-year old American photographer-vet was a nice touch, too.

But I couldn't quite make out all the French. Can you translate his joke?
I caught something about "tour de tennis", then missed the rest. Whatever the rest was, it made everyone laugh. .

Such a wonderful part of the world, too. .

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Local western France's newspapers coverage of John Kerry's arrival and stay in St Briac. [View all] mylye2222 Jun 2014 OP

The same source now has this - with lots of video links karynnj Jun 2014 #1

BFMTV and Le Parisien covered it well to. Jk gave his speech in French. mylye2222 Jun 2014 #2

Here another coverage from France 3, with video. mylye2222 Jun 2014 #3

This was particularly nice MBS Jun 2014 #4

yes here is it. mylye2222 Jun 2014 #5

OK, that makes sense! MBS Jun 2014 #6

I agree - it looks like the town was very happy to see him - and he looked karynnj Jun 2014 #8

here's the English transcript of his formal remarks: MBS Jun 2014 #7

thank you for this -- and for the translation karynnj Jun 2014 #9