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        <title><![CDATA[« Vanité des vanités, tout est vanité. » y compris ce blog - "Vanity of vanity, all is vanity.", this blog included]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Je m'&eacute;panche en fran&ccedil;ais et en anglais.
Trying to write short stories in French and English.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Part II: Opportunity]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2017 21:12:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[This is the twenty-first century. We all know that, in any country of this world, most people live in large cities. These same cities continue to expand since many people from the same country, from neighbouring countries and even from very distant countries... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederi]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Tour Guide]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://cypres.canalblog.com/archives/2016/11/23/34603239.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2016 21:12:30 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[She never felt like teaching children. She wanted to be a University professor, preferably at some well-known university. To do that, she would have had to take competitive exams which she might have failed, not only once but repeatedly… She would not... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Part I: An unexpected phone call]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2016 22:08:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[It has already been almost ten years now that my father first received a phone call followed, a few days later, by a letter about that person related to our family who had died some two years before. I remember my father telling me on the phone, after... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[An invitation from my bank]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2016 16:03:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I have been to my bank today. Not because I felt like going or even because I needed to go but because I got a call two weeks ago. It said that I should pay a visit to discuss what I should do with the little money there is on my account. I accepted out... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederi]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[&quot;A woman on a bus today carried her Pekinese dog inside her handbag. It had a red bow on its head that matched her sweater.&quot;]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2016 21:32:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[‘A woman on the bus today carried her Pekinese dog inside her handbag. It had a red bow on its head that matched her sweater.’ Therefore, it came as no surprise that some youngsters, clad in hip-hop clothing, and who had just boarded the bus started to... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederi]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[A restaurant that caters to dinosaurs like me]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://cypres.canalblog.com/archives/2016/10/19/34460285.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:44:53 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[“Where will I have lunch from now on?” I started to ask myself as soon as the company I work for had moved to another part of the city. I went out looking for a restaurant where I would go for lunch on my working days. I needed a place where I would fit:... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederi]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[My History professor]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2016 09:41:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The worst thing about stereotypes is that, very often, they are true. Whenever I am reminded of this, I can't help thinking about my History professor: he incarnated the cliché to perfection. What I remember most vividly about him was that since he had... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederi]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Consultancy]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://cypres.canalblog.com/archives/2016/10/07/34413240.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2016 22:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[There was only one person when I entered the medical office. It was very quiet in the waiting room; I took a seat and waited to be called. I looked around for free magazines but there wasn’t any. I wondered how I would keep myself busy as I expected the... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederi]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[One fact and three fictitious elements / Three facts and one fictitious element]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://cypres.canalblog.com/archives/2016/10/04/34401823.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2016 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[1. One fact and three fictitious elements Tonight, I cycled back home from a client meeting. At the first traffic light I had to stop, a female cyclist approached and asked me if I was that famous chef who had appeared on a TV show the night before. I... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederi]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Premier chapitre : mon oncle d'Amérique]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://cypres.canalblog.com/archives/2007/05/29/5119959.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 18:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Mon oncle d'Amérique Cela fait maintenant combien de temps que mon père a reçu un appel téléphonique puis, quelques jours plus tard, une lettre relative à cette personne, parente lointaine et inconnue, disparue quelques deux ans auparavant ? Presque trois... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederi]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Deuxième chapitre : &quot; Opportunity &quot;]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://cypres.canalblog.com/archives/2007/05/29/5120083.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 18:49:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[" Opportunity " Nous vivons au XXIe siècle. Les populations de la plupart des pays de ce monde vivent dans des mégapoles. Celles-ci ne cessent de s'étendre ; les gens du pays, ceux de zones limitrophes et mêmes ceux d'aires très lointaines s'installent... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederi]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Troisième chapitre : vers le Nord]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 17:41:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Vers le Nord L'enracinement semble appartenir au passé. Lui appartient-il vraiment ?Je vis en Europe où nombreux sont les villages et petites villes dans lesquels se trouvent encore des familles établies là depuis plusieurs siècles. Ma famille compte... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederi]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Quatrième chapitre : Bellecombe]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://cypres.canalblog.com/archives/2007/05/27/5197938.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 15:41:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Bellecombe Cette année, mon père aura soixante-dix-huit ans. Cela faisait longtemps qu'il s'interrogeait sur les origines géographiques des aïeux de sa mère ; lorsque le généalogiste appela pour la première fois, la seule indication qu'il donna fut que... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Frederi]]></dc:creator>
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