I'm closing out our French tribute with a look ahead to next month's trip to Germany:
Diva: toy poodle
Mensch: standard poodle
I think of the poodle as quintessentially French, but it turns out it originated in Germany but was developed in France.
This was another case of YouTube making a helpful suggestion on their homepage:
Composer David Del Tredici died the other day at the age of 86. He won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1980 for "In Memory of a Summer Day," part one of Child Alice. He wrote many pieces inspired by A
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