We French call our country “la France.” But when we speak of “le France,” that’s the SS France — once the biggest ocean liner in the world.
In my 60 years of travels, I’ve found myself twice in its wake: here in the late 1960s, off the pier of Cannes in southern France; and some 20 years later, anchored in Miami. Alas, by then the oil crisis had forced France to sell our naval pride and joy to Norway …
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