Major French-language daily newspapers in 2008 are La Dernière Heure ( IPM ) ( 16. 1 %), Le Soir ( Groupe Rossel ) ( 16. 0 %), Vers l ' Avenir ( Corelio ) ( 15. 8 %), La Libre Belgique ( IPM ) ( 8. 3 %), L ' Echo ( Mediafin ) ( 3. 7 %) and La Meuse ( newspaper ) ( Groupe Rossel ), La Capitale ( Groupe Rossel ), La Nouvelle Gazette ( Groupe Rossel ), La Province ( Groupe Rossel ) and Nord Eclair ( Groupe Rossel ) ( 22. 0 %).

In 2008, Marion Cotillard won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her portrayal of legendary French singer Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, the first French-language performance to be so honored.

His best-known operas include the Italian comedies Il barbiere di Siviglia ( The Barber of Seville ) and La Cenerentola and the French-language epics Moïse et Pharaon and Guillaume Tell.

The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's invasion of Italy.

However, there is a significant tradition in French-language operas of the 19th Century to give the leading female role to mezzos, as for example in Béatrice et Bénédict, La Damnation de Faust, Don Quichotte, La Favorite, Mignon, Samson et Dalila, Les Troyens, and Werther as well as Carmen.

La Rotonde is the official French-language student newspaper at the University of Ottawa.

French-language Belgian publisher La Cinquième Couche anonymously produced a book called Katz, a remix of Spiegelman's book with all animal heads replaced with cat heads.

Stations of the CBC or Société Radio-Canada tend to identify themselves as " CBC Radio One "/" CBC Radio Two " ( English-language ) or " La Première Chaîne "/" Espace Musique " ( French-language ) of a city, although they do have official three-and four-letter call signs.

Elie ( Edwin J. Luce 1881 – 1918 ) was editor of the French-language newspaper La Nouvelle Chronique de Jersey and a poet who wrote topical poems for the newspaper.

Although French-language programs were shown on TVO since its inception and gradually increased in number since then, they eventually moved to the French arm of TVOntario, TFO ( originally known as La Chaîne française ).

La Presse, founded in 1884, is a French-language daily newspaper published Mondays through Saturdays in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

The concept of " dhimmitude " was introduced into Western discourse by the writer Bat Ye ' or in a French-language article published in the Italian journal La Rassegna mensile di Israel in 1983.

From 1898, he began issuing the French-language newspaper La Roumanie, through which he publicized his own program, commonly referred to as Takism.

In the French-language press ( La Minerve, L ' Avenir ), the measure was unanimously supported.

La Cité collégiale is the largest French-language college in Ontario.

* La Pianiste ( 2001 film ), a French-language film by Michael Haneke, also known as The Piano Teacher

For the first several years of La Chaîne's operations, this continued and La Chaîne broadcast in English during the same time block, because La Chaîne was only available on cable and the government wanted to ensure that Franco-Ontarian viewers without cable still had access to a block of French-language programming.

The Society ’ s French-language magazine, Géographica, which is published in collaboration with La Presse, was introduced in 1997.

In July 1912, the Conservative government of Sir James Whitney issued Regulation 17 which severely limited the availability of French-language schooling to the province's French-speaking minority.

Also in 1890, Greenway's Liberals enacted legislation to unilaterally abolish the province's obligation to ensure all its law were bilinqual, doing away with French-language legislation.

In the provincial elections of 1986 and 1988, he was the leader of the province's Confederation of Regions Party, a group that opposed the extension of French-language rights and sought greater autonomy for western Canada ( unlike the Western Canada Concept and Western Independence Party, it did not seek full independence for the western provinces ).

Heeney was serving as the reeve of the Rural Municipality of Elton in 1983 when he became active in a provincial controversy over the entrenchment of francophone services .< Ref Name = " Hebert "> Hebert p205 </ ref > At the time, NDP Premier Howard Pawley was attempting to reintroduce French-language services into the province's parliament and legal system.

In March 1993, the Supreme Court of Canada issued a unanimous decision requiring Manitoba to give exclusive control over French-language education to the province's francophone community.

He played his first leading film role in 1995, when he played " One " in Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's French-language The City of Lost Children.

He strongly opposed efforts by Premier Howard Pawley to legally entrench French-language services in the province ( which he regarded as leading to official bilingualism ), and created an organization called Manitoba Grassroots to coordinate opposition to the policy.

As editor of the French-language newspaper Le Bailliage, he also wrote feuilletons in Dgèrnésiais under the pen name Badlagoule (" chatterbox ").

The critic of The Nation who had consistently praised Copeau's efforts wrote: " The Vieux-Colombier has not only afforded New York a continually varied feast of inspiration and refreshment but it has set for us a new and practicable standard by which American dramatic art may be tested " Against all odds, a French-language theatre had presented a repertoire of plays of considerable taste during a two-season stint in a city enthralled with Broadway.

' Elie ' ( Edwin J. Luce 1881 – 1918 ) was editor of the French-language newspaper La Nouvelle Chronique de Jersey and a poet who wrote topical poems for the newspaper.

Tremblay worked also on a television series entitled Le Cœur découvert ( The Heart Laid Bare ), about the lives of a gay couple in Quebec, for the French-language TV network Radio-Canada.

On French-language television in Quebec the téléroman has been a popular mainstay of network programming since the 1950s.

A third French-language service, V, is licensed as a provincial network within Quebec, but not nationally.

As before, French-language staff outside of Quebec were also affected by the 2005 lockout, although with Quebec producing the bulk of the French networks ’ programming, those networks were not as visibly affected by the dispute apart from local programs.

Audience fragmentation is another issue ; French Canadians prefer home-grown television programming, a vibrant Quebec star system is in place, and little American or foreign content airs on French-language networks, public or private.

One practical consequence of this asymmetry is that all migrants who arrive in Quebec from foreign countries are required to place their children in French-language schools.

Section 23 also provides, in theory, a nearly universal right to French-language schooling for the children of all francophones living outside Quebec, including immigrants from French-speaking countries who settle outside Quebec, and who are Canadian citizens.

Another element of asymmetry between Quebec and most anglophone provinces is that while Quebec provides public English-language primary and secondary education throughout the province, most other provinces provide French-language education only " where numbers warrant.

From 1956 to 1959, Lévesque became famous in Quebec for hosting a weekly television news program on Télévision de Radio-Canada ( the French-language counterpart of the CBC ) called Point de Mire.

These include the English-language TVOntario and the French-language TFO in Ontario, Télé-Québec in Quebec, public radio station CKUA in Alberta, and Knowledge in British Columbia.

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# The other French-language broadcaster in Quebec, V, does not have mandatory national carriage rights, although some cable companies in Ontario and New Brunswick offer the network on a discretionary basis, and the network does have mandatory carriage in Quebec.

Le Devoir, though not widely read outside Quebec, is the French-language counterpart to the national newspapers.

French Canadian films, on the other hand, are often more successful — as with French-language television, the language difference makes Quebec audiences much more receptive to Canadian-produced film.

In many years, the top-grossing Canadian film is a French-language film from Quebec.

Even English-language dialogue containing these words can appear on Quebec French-language television without bleeping: for example, when, in 2003, punks rioted in Montreal because a concert by the band The Exploited had been cancelled, TV news reporters solemnly read out a few lyrics and song titles from their album Fuck the System.

Le Devoir is a French-language newspaper published in Montreal and distributed in Quebec and the rest of Canada.

The non-registered CPC-aligned PCQ held a new convention which re-started a communist French-language periodical, Clarté, and later opened an office and small reading room, launched an active website, and re-affiliated with Quebec Solidaire as an organized group.

For information on French-language cinema in Canada, see also Cinema of Quebec.

French-Canadian films, on the other hand, are often more successful — as with French-language television, the language difference makes Quebec audiences much more receptive to Canadian-produced films.