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Mar 2008
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95: "'Les Cantonales', 'Les Régionales',...

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Local and regional elections are about to take place in France. It's all a little complicated, in fact. In this lesson - an advanced leson completely in French! - let's study at least some of the vocabulary and expressions which will shed a little light on all things political...

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