Keith Laidlaw a �crit :
(...)
>
> Years ago (40+ ?) onion growers from Brittany would cross the
>Channel
> to sell their onions around the south of England. They would
>travel by
> bicycle from town to town.
>
> For the British, this has become a caricature of the French
>(beret,
> stripey shirt, onions and bicycle) in the same way as the
>English are
> seen as wearing bowler hats, pinstripe trousers and carrying
>umbrellas
> by the rest of the world.
>
> Keith
>
I didn't know that, thank you very much for this information Keith,
this is why I really like this mailing list you can learm a lot about
everything. :)
Francois Bruntz
Apprenti MIAGE (Universite Paris XII - IBM France)
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Received on Tue Nov 04 1997 - 12:33:24 UTC