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very informal; it's not that way any more.
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And he said "we're going to close because
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the general il est mort"--the general is dead.
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And Charles de Gaulle died had died.
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And I, I think infuriated my Gaullist friend
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by saying that he died of boredom watching French TV;
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but he was off in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises
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and he had died at age--he must've just been eighty;
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wasn't he eighty when he died, do you remember?
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You don't remember but anyway I think he was eighty
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when he died.
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And so later my Gaullist friend