The first major star of French hip hop was MC Solaar, born Claude M ' Barali in Dakar, Senegal.

The European Music Office's report on Music in Europe claimed that the French language was well-suited for rapping, and that MC Solaar's popularity came about " probably because of his very open and positive attitude, his strong literary talents and humour ".

Following MC Solaar's breakthrough, two broad styles emerged within the French hip hop scene ; artists such as Solaar, Dee Nasty, and Lionel D championed a more mellow, sanguine style, while more hardcore performers such as Assassin and Suprême NTM assumed a more aggressive aesthetic.

While the popularity of nationally grown rap in France grew with the presence of MC Solaar, his involvement in the overall French hip hop subculture is non-existent as many consider his work to be in the traditional vein of French pop and not of the politically-minded, mostly African-influenced hip hop aesthetic of France.

This makes it difficult for even French speaking listeners to understand what the MC is saying.

The album also features collaborations with N ' Dea Davenport ( of the Brand New Heavies ) and French rapper MC Solaar.

American hip hop music was exported to France in the 1980s, and French rappers and DJs, like David Guetta and MC Solaar, also had some success.

After falling ill with dysentery, he was sent back to Scotland to recuperate, after which he was posted to Flanders and saw action at Ypres and Passchendaele, for which he was awarded the Military Cross ( MC ) and the French Croix de Guerre for bravery.

Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny, GCB, MC ( 2 February 1889 – 11 January 1952 ) was a French military hero of World War II and commander in the First Indochina War.

His tunic displays him having earned 4 medals, in order from left to right they are: The Queen's South Africa Medal, The King's South Africa Medal, The 1914-15 Star and the French Croix de Guerre which Lt. George St. Barleigh, MC also has.

Thanks to Momo's guiding hand, Faudel soon built up his own repertoire and began performing as a support act with a number of top French music stars ( including MC Solaar, Idir, Jimmy Oihid and Rai mega-star Khaled ).

The French band Les Négresses Vertes as well as grime MC Lady Sovereign have both covered " Pretty Vacant " and performed live versions of the song.

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo is French rapper MC Solaar's first album.

The song would become part of the hip-hop lexicon via sampling by Will Smith, Master P, Monica, Janet Jackson, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, French artist MC Solaar and Emily King, who made use of it for her 2007 debut album, East Side Story, in the song Walk in My Shoes.

Malik B was featured on MC Solaar's 1994 album Prose Combat in a smashing duet with the French / Senegalese rapper.

Julee Cruise, best known for the theme of Twin Peaks, supplied vocals on several songs, and Soon E MC added French rapping to Sinequanon.

Zdar and Boom Bass started working together in 1988, producing albums for the French hip-hop artist, MC Solaar.

Major-General Sir Edward Louis Spears, 1st Baronet, KBE, CB, MC ( 7 August 1886 – 27 January 1974 ) was a British Army officer and Member of Parliament noted for his role as a liaison officer between British and French forces in two world wars.

While it was expected to compete directly with the existing general-interest services – The Movie Network and Movie Central ( hereafter " TMN / MC ") in English Canada and Super Écran in French Canada – Archambault indicated that its services would have regularly favoured first-run dramatic series.

Mario Tremblay, better known under his moniker MC Mario, is a French Canadian song producer, disc jockey and radio host from Montreal, Quebec.

* January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims.

Maezumi is himself mourning the loss of his son to French, rather than Japanese, cuisine, and reluctantly agrees to train Abby in the art of making ramen, but is an overbearing master, whom she cannot understand but tries so hard to please, in between complaining about how hard she has to work.

Mireille Guiliano, author of the # 1 bestseller French Women Don't Get Fat, agrees that the weight differences are not due to French smoking habits.

The text agrees with the French poem in listing a bleeding lance among the items which are carried in procession.

Notwithstanding the normal rules ( see French verbs ), the past participle laissé followed by an infinitive never agrees with the object:

In most Romance languages ( such as Spanish, French, and Italian ) the gender of the possessive determiners agrees with the thing ( s ) owned, not with the owner.

When Sara requests that Hogan take her to a Mexican camp, he agrees because he had previously arranged to help the Mexican revolutionaries attack the French garrison in exchange for a portion of the garrison's strongbox if they are successful.

He escapes, and agrees to kill Palivoda for the French in exchange for passage to Brazil for himself and Veronica.

Both are aware that their time is past, but their reaction to this reality diverges: de Boeldieu accepts the fate of the aristocracy as a positive improvement, but von Rauffenstein does not, lamenting what he sarcastically calls the " charming legacy of the French Revolution ".

The Hỏa Lò Prison, was a prison used by the French colonists in Vietnam for political prisoners, and later by North Vietnam for prisoners of war during the Vietnam War when it was sarcastically known to American prisoners of war as the " Hanoi Hilton ".

Stoppard was also mentioned in the popular television show Psychoville on June 18, 2009, when the character Joy Aston ( Dawn French ) sarcastically mistakes one of the ante-natal parents she coaches as Dr. Miriam Stoppard after the ante-natal parent had corrected Joy's use of the term " soft spot " instead of " fontanelle ".

It often acted as a counterpoint to Cahiers du cinéma, another well-known French film journal, notably with Gerard Gozlan's article sarcastically titled " In Praise of André Bazin.

" She warned of the Revolution ’ s building extremism saying that leaders were " preparing new shackles if French people ’ s liberty were to waver.

He is quoted saying that Galileo " is a stupid idea that primarily serves French interests ".

Romanovsky and other French scientists, including Louis Fage and Jacques Cousteau, repudiated the claim, saying that Romanovsky had in mind a much smaller amount.

Bonnet had Havas issued a statement at midnight on 1 September saying :" The French government has today, as have several other Governments, received an Italian proposal looking to the resolution of Europe's difficulties.

She did so in French and-whilst being dragged out of the room by two ushers-repeated her words in German saying " Kiesinger!

Senior French Cardinal Achille Liénart addressed the Council, saying that the bishops could not intelligently vote for strangers.

The French foreign ministry issued a statement saying, " Our ambassador decided on January 3 not to authorise any public access to the diplomatic mission until further notice.

" Rohrabacher gave a speech in support of American equipping the KLA with weaponry, comparing it to French support of America in the Revolutionary War, saying " Based on our own experience, the Kosovo Liberation Army should have been armed.

As portrayed by Sellers, Clouseau ’ s French accent became steadily more exaggerated in successive films ( for example, pronouncing " room " as " reum "; " Pope " as " Peup "; " bomb " as " beumb "; and " bumps " as " beumps "), and a frequent running gag in the movies was that even French characters would have difficulty understanding what he was saying.

Hofstadter gives one example of translation trouble in the paragraph " Mr. Tortoise, Meet Madame Tortue ", saying translators " instantly ran headlong into the conflict between the feminine gender of the French noun tortue and the masculinity of my character, the Tortoise ".

Another report from French naturalist Frances de Castelnau in 1855 relates an allegation by local Araguay fisherman, saying that it is dangerous to urinate in the river as the fish " springs out of the water and penetrates into the urethra by ascending the length of the liquid column.

CBN later issued a statement saying that Robertson's comments " were based on the widely-discussed 1791 slave rebellion led by Dutty Boukman at Bois Caiman, where the slaves allegedly made a famous pact with the devil in exchange for victory over the French.

He went on to scold players for not singing La Marseillaise, saying they were not " French ".

In order to help them, French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a new political approach to the economically challenged " banlieues " of France in 2008 saying that, " 500 million euros will be spent on the improvement of French public transportation ( an effort to make the ghetto less isolated ), an increase in police forces in the " banlieues ," a prioritization of creating new jobs for these underprivileged youth, a systematic crackdown on drug trafficking in the " banlieues ", and the establishment of new schools in disadvantaged areas for students who show particular promise.

On occasion, cast members would try to " dodge " getting hit with water by saying the word in Spanish or French, only to still get hit with water.

The Maquis also used German weapons captured throughout the occupation, the MP40 being very common ; a French Resistance Fighter is quoted saying, " They are as common as hookers on the streets of Paris, and they get about as much action.

As a result, besides alveolar " r ", the endings of many words which are pronounced in other varieties of French are not pronounced at all or are pronounced differently, for example, saying " connaissant " () instead of " connaissance " ().

Prime Minister Pierlot spoke on French radio, saying that the king's decision to surrender went against the Belgian Constitution.

For example, a character in a French film or novel saying " Tutoie-moi!

Saunders goads French to try the accent by saying: " How are you?