Chouette! Les Animaux en Voie de Disparition!

There is a free exhibit just across the street from the Eiffel Tower showing a bunch of stunning nature photographs of "les animaux en voie de disparition": endangered species. I ripped off some photos shown here.
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Franco-American Competitive Topic of the Day: today is strictly by the numbers--which country has the longer life expectancy? It's France: (80.59 years to 78 years life expectancy from birth, according to the 2007 World Fact Book that is displayed on wikipedia. France is up by 1, 13-12.

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French Vocab for the Day: the word for an owl is "un hibou" or "une chouette", the latter of which is also used as an expression for "super!" or "great!"