A gauche le billet d’avion avec lequel je suis arrivé en France le 24/07/1991 & A droite le décret par lequel le Président
@EmmanuelMacron
me nomme Consul général à Toronto le 21/06/2019.
Modeste exemple de la
#meritocratie
dans notre beau pays!
France, a country where the winner of the Best Baguette 2023 is fellow Tamilian named Selvarajah, who came to Paris in 2006 aged 21.
The ELYSÉE PALACE will serve his baguettes to the President’s guests guests for one year! 💪🏾
@AmarAmarasingam
@munza14
👉🏾
🇨🇦🇫🇷🇺🇸 Et voilà, cette année encore, les mythiques Chutes du Niagara éclairées aux couleurs de la France pour le
#14Juillet
côté USA & Canada! Vive la France!
« Les Français vivent au Paradis et se croient en Enfer ». Vrai ou faux?
Quelques chiffres (1/n)
1. le pays qui dépense le plus de son PIB pour les prestations sociales (déjà avant le COVID)
French ambassador to Ukraine
@EdePoncins
raises the 🇫🇷 to reopen our embassy in
#Kyiv
& says «Kyiv has not been conquered, 🇺🇦 has withstood the agression and we want to be the closest possible to the authorities to bring support and express solidarity ».
While Hollywood celebrates Tom Cruise & manly stunts in
#TopGunMaverick
, France 🇫🇷 just appointed Colonel Anne-Laure Michel to command the BA125 airforce base at Istres. FYI, the BA125 houses our nuclear mid-range missiles to be used by the fighter squadron in its deterrent role.
@morcos_pierre
This is HUGE. The Caesar howitzers offered by 🇫🇷 to
#Ukraine
are truck-mounted self-propelled 155 mm artillery systems with a range of 42 to 50 km. They’ve been battle-tested against ISIS and in Afghanistan. Plus they’re compatible with
@NATO
standard artillery munitions.
Map showing where the 17677 children from
#Ukraine
🇺🇦 go to schools in France 🇫🇷! Good news : most kids are doing great especially in maths!
#StandWithUkraine
L’un des premiers bureaux de vote dans le monde pour le premier tour des
#electionpresidentielle2022
vient d’ouvrir à Toronto 🇨🇦. Les Français sont très nombreux à s’y rendre tôt ce matin 👏🏾🇫🇷🗳
Ms Yael Braun-Pivet, grand daughter of Polish and German immigrants who fled nazism, made
History yesterday by becoming the first WOMAN Speaker of the French parliament 🇫🇷. Finally !
To echo
@_ShamGod
, non-white French people have been sounding the alarm on Macron for years.
But the global media wanted to anoint him as a centrist saint, the person who saved France from Marine Le Pen.
Feel better?
Je ne sais pas si vous réalisez que
@gnougnou25
devient la PREMIERE FEMME JUDOKA dans l’histoire des jeux olympiques à gagner deux médailles 🥇 aux mêmes JO !
@Gnougnou25
is the first ever woman to win two
@judo
gold medals at the same
#Olympics
On attend la photo avec les 2 🥇!
Motorcade down Champs Elysées carrying the body of Hubert Germain 🇫🇷, who just died aged 101 as the last survivor of 1,038 French soldiers decorated as “Companions of the Liberation” by Charles de Gaulle. He is buried on
#RemembranceDay2021
!
@guyverhofstadt
Please be more accurate. The
@POLITICOEurope
clearly states : “Trade with Russia has declined significantly as a result, though it's still slightly higher in value than last year due to soaring energy and commodity prices”.
👇🏾
🇨🇦🇫🇷🇺🇸 Cette année encore, pour fêter le
#14Juillet
les mythiques Chutes du Niagara sont éclairées aux couleurs de la France, côté USA & Canada! Vive la France 💙🤍♥️
While y'all watch
#Lupin
let me recommend "The Wolf's Call" a submarine sub-genre movie where
@OmarSy
plays Captain D'Orsi. Take my word as a Captain: it's pulse-pounding action with great intrigue!
Shot at French naval faciliites
Available on
@netflix
👉
Arrivée en France à 20 ans en baragouinant le français, devenu diplomate de mon pays d’adoption à 34ans, je fais grève pour la 1ère fois en 17ans de métier pour que la France puisse compter sur ses diplomates de carrière pour défendre ses intérêts à l’international
#diplo2metier
This is Sahar. She was born in Afghanistan 🇦🇫. She came to Canada 🇨🇦 as a kid. And today she became French 🇫🇷. One of the most beautiful days in my life.
France 🇫🇷 will deliver RATTLESNAKE / Crotale air-defence system to Ukraine 🇺🇦!They are one of the MOST successful SAM built to intercept missiles, drones and low-altitude aircraft at 3.5 Mach & protect crucial infrastructure
@GerardAraud
@morcos_pierre
RIP Captain Nichola Goddard, MSM
I didn’t know about you until I visited
@BeechwoodOttawa
.
I will not forget you.
I hope many others will come to know about you.
UPDATE: The two brave Afghan athletes🇦🇫 Hossain Rasouli and Zakia Khudadadi whose incredible story at the
#Paralympics
was reported by
@Devin_Heroux
for
@cbcsports
have been welcomed in France 🇫🇷 according to French sports minister
@RoxaMaracineanu
Prez
@EmmanuelMacron
had a special message for Ukrainians 🇺🇦 in his speech tonight :
“ During the coming year, we will be by your side without fail, we will help you until victory, we will be together to build a just and lasting peace. You can count on France 🇫🇷 and on Europe 🇪🇺”
FRISSONS!
Listen to the “Chant des Partisans”, the most popular song of the French Resistance sung by the choir of the French army for
#DanielCordier
former resistant who passed away last week aged 100.
@paulg
Just dont let that hide the fact that France is a country of a million engineers that churns out unicorns all the while excelling in aerospace, rail, sustainability & what not.
@barabde
@LaurentSegnis
@RMCinfo
Depuis déjà plusieurs semaines tous les restaurateurs de Toronto ont mis en place l’obligation de déclaration à tous leurs clients car ils mesurent l’importance d’assurer la sécurité sanitaire de leur personnel et leurs clients.
Leave the extreme right & left with their fallacies and fake news. The truth is we are an inclusive nation, proud of our history & contribution to human rights and ready to acknowledge our mistakes.
Signed: an immigrant to France 🇫🇷 & its official representative to Toronto 🇨🇦
Notre France à nous 🇫🇷
Unique au monde 🌍
Éternellement diverse dans ses paysages et ses visages
À conserver, unie dans sa diversité
👩🏻🦰👩🏿👩🏽🦱👲🏻👨🏻🦳👵🏻👨🌾👩🏻🔬👨🏽🔬🦸🏻👩🎤🧕🏼
Balcony & confinement = "Balconfinement" in Paris where Pauline & Anne-Laure, two students at the Paris conservatory sing the famous Flower Duet from Lakmé by Leo Delibes for their neighbours.
#COVID2019
#francegottalent
🙌👏
Ma coloc et moi sommes ravies de vous présenter un extrait de notre balconfinement. À defaut d'avoir nos cours au
@CnsmdParis
on fait un mini-concert aux voisins...
French fire rescue workers &
@seashepherd
volunteers worked day & night and saved a beached whale in Britanny despite low tide last night.
@Seasaver
@whalesorg
Avis à ceux qui utilisent le mot «dictature»
La France gagne deux places en un an et se classe en 24ème position dans l’index
@RSF_inter
de la liberté de la presse.
La Russie dégringole de la 155ème place à 164 en même temps.
@RobinMazumder
It’s also the case with e-learning world-wide.
Not all kids have
- internet connection
- enough devices
- separate rooms to work quietly
- parents with time and knowledge to tutor
If govts don’t pay attention
#Covid_19
can deepen inequalities. Thankfully teachers can act!
Prez
@EmmanuelMacron
had a special message for Ukrainians 🇺🇦 in his speech tonight :
“ During the coming year, we will be by your side without fail, we will help you until victory, we will be together to build a just and lasting peace. You can count on France 🇫🇷 and on Europe 🇪🇺”
Tamil is my mother tongue and Malayalam my mom’s mother tongue. I was schooled in English since age 3 in India 🇮🇳. My decision to learn French earnestly at age15 was the best decision I made in my life. Here are some reasons why you may want to consider learning French too. A 🧵
My country just rescued diplomats & civilians of 22 countries including UK, US, Greece, Sweden + Germany’s ambassador from war torn
#Sudan
.
And there’s this guy asking why France « inexplicably » has status on the world stage.
Shame on you
@ProfPaulPoast
!
What is something that Russia is wasting, France inexplicably has, and China clearly wants?
Let's talk about "Status" in international politics.
[THREAD]
Et c'est au tour de Mohamed-Iyad de monter sur scène ! Pour sa lecture, il a choisi un immense classique de la littérature française : "Les misérables" du grand Victor Hugo
#sionlisaitavoixhaute
@France5tv
Rest in Power Sergent Raphaël Cousin. A Frenchman, you did what thousands of Canadian troops did for France. I will see you every time I come to Beechwood. ❤️
Le Monde confirming what
@RolandOliphant
correctly stated a few days ago: that Ukrainian 🇺🇦 shore artillery fire incl. from Caesar howitzers given by France 🇫🇷 was crucial to winning back
#SnakeIsland
#SlavaUkraini
As a small town youth who arrived in France in 1991 speaking a little French, I’m humbled and honoured to be the appointed by President
@EmmanuelMacron
to be the next French Consul General to Ontario and Manitoba
@francetoronto
A tiny example of meritocracy in 🇫🇷!
Je suis un immigré en France. Je suis arrivé à l’âge de 20 ans sans parler le français. Et ajd, je suis Consul général de France 🇫🇷. Je voulais juste dire ça et que je ne laisserai personne dire qu’il est plus français que moi.
Mes parents sont des immigrés sud-américains. Je suis ambassadeur de France. Je voulais dire ça mais aussi, quel beau pays que le nôtre qui rend cela possible.
A VERY good morning to everyone in Toronto who cycles: to work, to school, for fun.
Last night we elected a true cyclist as our Mayor - not some swashbuckler, but a true cyclist.
After years of near despair, I am officially allowing myself to expect great things. It is time!
There are 168 « rue aux écoles » in Paris meaning « Streets for schools » with no cars, more safety, more trees, less noise and less pollution. 114 of them were created during the pandemic. In all, 204 schools are covered by such a street in Paris!
👩🏻 One of the many unsung heroes.
My cousin, Thabitha, in charge of a growing number of
#COVID19
patients🥼
🕓 She’s working 12-hour shifts in a hospital in a foreign land
✊🏽15 of her coworkers have been infected & quarantined
💪🏽👏🏽🙏🏽
#coronavirus
#CoronavirusPandemic
#nurselife
Je l’ai confirmé au Président Zelensky ce matin : nous sommes pleinement mobilisés pour augmenter dans les plus brefs délais notre soutien militaire à l’Ukraine, en particulier la défense anti-aérienne.
This video of French Yamakasis & Parkour enthusiasts doubling as climate activists by switching off shop signs at nighttime is a must watch (with sound on!).
@shawnmicallef
@anne_theriault
A gauche- Devant le consulat à Pondichéry où je suis devenu Français à l'âge de 18 ans.
A droite- Consul général de France, j'accueille une Canadienne dans la nationalité française.
"L’homme n’est esclave ni de sa race ni de sa langue, ni de sa religion, ni du cours des fleuves"
Our
#BastilleDay
military parade in Paris 🇫🇷 today was opened by troops from 9 allies from Eastern Europe & the Baltic: Estonia🇪🇪, Latvia🇱🇻, Lithuania🇱🇹, Poland🇵🇱, Czech Republic🇨🇿, Slovakia🇸🇰, Hungary🇭🇺, Romania🇷🇴 & Bulgaria🇧🇬!
#StrongerTogether
Watched our Hindu neighbour finish a rangoli for my parent’s home in India 🇮🇳. Another example of how traditions and arts can strengthen interfaith harmony !
The staff at the French 🇫🇷 embassy in Bamako applaud Ambassador Joël Meyer as he leaves
#Mali
🇲🇱 because the local military authorities expelled him. Joël is not just your hard-working diplomat, but a fine gentleman & we both learnt to speak हिन्दी!
C’est bien connu, c’est à Québec ⚜️ que se croisent les diplomates français 🇫🇷 de Toronto 🇨🇦 et Mexico 🇲🇽!
Es bien sabido que en la ciudad de Quebec ⚜️ se reúnen los diplomáticos franceses 🇫🇷 de Toronto 🇨🇦 y Ciudad de México🇲🇽!Quel plaisir
@AsvazadourianJP
!
Comme toujours, échanges de qualité avec la Procureure générale
#Ukraine
Mme Irina Venedictova
@VenediktovaIV
. Remerciements de sa part pr le travail de nos gendarmes légistes de l'IRCGN. Ensemble contre les crimes de guerre. De nombreux domaines de coopération. Solidarité 🇫🇷🇺🇦.
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 The French National Assembly UNANIMOUSLY voted to ban « conversion therapies » that try to modify a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity!
@LaurenceVanceu
@1ElisaMoreno
✅ Interdiction des
#TherapiesDeConversion
| Adoption à l'unanimité de la proposition de loi interdisant les pratiques visant à modifier l’orientation sexuelle ou l’identité de genre d’une personne, en première lecture.
En savoir plus ➡️
#DirectAN
It’s a DOUBLE VICTORY for
#AliceDiop
🇫🇷 at the
#VeniceFilmFestival2022
The Silver Lion AND The Lion of the Future Award with 'Saint-Omer', her first feature. Alice has been making documentaries for over 15 years. 🎥👌🏾❤️
During my 13 years as an ambassador, I always offered wine (French) to my guests for lunch and diner (not for the breakfast though) Often white and then red. And champagne before the meal.
La France 🇫🇷 n’oubliera jamais les efforts de les sacrifices des 14 000 soldats canadiens 🇨🇦 et leurs familles! Ce
#6juin
nous rendons hommage à leur courage et à leur combat pour la
#liberte
#devoirdememoire