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unusual facts about Union des Français de l'Etranger


Union des Français de l'Etranger

The Union des Français de l'Etranger (French Foreign Union), or UFE, is a French organization with branches in more than 100 countries around the world in major world cities including New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, D.C. where there is a significant French or Francophone population.


Andrew Cash

He grew up in Toronto, where he befriended future MP, Charlie Angus, and along with Angus founded the Toronto punk band L'Étranger.

Charlie Angus

He was also a musician in the punk rock band L'Étranger with Andrew Cash (now the Member of Parliament for Davenport), and later in the more folk-oriented Grievous Angels.

David S Rosenblatt

In 1995 he was made a Correspondant étranger of the Académie Nationale de Médecine (France), and in 2005, he was elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

École Française du Maine

The School is affiliated with MLF (Mission laïque française) and AEFE (Agence pour l'enseignement français à l'étranger).

Gloria Lasso

Born as Rosa María Coscolin in Vilafranca del Penedès, Catalonia, she achieved a degree of fame and success in the 1950s and 1960s, with songs such as Amour, castagnettes et tango (1955), Etranger au paradis (1956, a French version of Stranger in paradise by Tony Bennett), Buenas noches mi amor (1957) and Bon voyage (1958).

Haim Aharon Valero

It also had the status of correspondent with the Rothschilds of Paris and London, Samuel Montague& Company bankers of London and Osterreichische Creditanstalt And Banque Russe pour le Commerce Etranger in Paris.

Killing an Arab

Composer Robert Smith has said that the song "was a short poetic attempt at condensing my impression of the key moments in L'Étranger (The Stranger) by Albert Camus".


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