emotions, and other smiling was not. In the introduction to his book The Expression of the Emo-tions in Man and Animals (1872/1955), Darwin described his indebtedness to the French anatomist Duchenne de Boulogne, who had published his Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine 10 years earlier, in 1862. Darwin

and the magnificent French lessons my time there wouldn’t be as chouette as it was. Big thanks go to my son Boris, who was kind enough to sleep through the whole nights, allowing his dad to actually write the thesis down.

This article presents a study of corrective feedback and learner uptake (i.e., responses to feedback) in four immersion classrooms at the primary level. Transcripts totaling 18.3 hours of classroom interaction taken from 14 subject-matter lessons and 13 French language arts lessons were analyzed

the cost escalation curse of nuclear power

Decentralising vocational training: More than just a shift in scale.

taken from this more than a century old material, and thus to pay tribute to this French founder of insect morphology.

This paper provides empirical support to the intuitive statement that urban geography matters to the success or failure of place-based public policies, using the French enterprise zone program as a case study. According to the few existing evaluations, this program has only had a small positive

was starting to unravel. The 1967 devaluation of sterling, the 1968 divorce of the market and official prices of gold, and the 1969 realignments of the French franc and German mark had papered over localized tensions in the Bretton Woods order. At the same time, those events vividly demonstrated that seemingly

1. What are Fats and who does compile them? FATS are statistics on trade and activity of Multinationals ’ Affiliates (“foreign affiliates”) developed to analyze their specific role. The domain is at the crossing of Business, BoP and IIP statistics: on a subset of FDI stocks (entities directly controlled), FATS measure sales (turnover), exports and imports of goods and services, value added and employment, of resident (inward) and non resident (outward) affiliates of multinational enterprises (MNEs) 1. These statistics were initially required for policy purpose to follow up the extension of "commercial presence " as a mode of international supply of services, within the GATS framework (e. g. WTO mode 3). But FATS have in fact a broader, analytical, purpose, that is to improve our understanding of BoP trends, by identifying the particular role of MNEs ’ affiliates in all BoP transactions (goods and services, investment income flows, loans, deposits…). This involves a coverage of all industries and not only services activities (Eurostat, 2003). Depending on the country, the compilation is made either by Central Bank, by National Statistical Office, by a specific institution, or even by a cooperation between these different players. 2. How are they compiled?

vehicle-related fatalities occurring in France has continuously decreased since 1972. Most impressively, after the trend began to flatten in the late 1990s, the French government rededicated itself to addressing roadway fatalities and between 2001 and 2007 had recorded an almost 43 percent decrease