Thursday, June 04, 2009

Air France

En route home from Tunis via Paris; I'll get back to some serious blogging next week after I resettle in a more commodious working environment. Meanwhile, here's a manifest of the Air France flight that went down off Brazil the other night, oddly affecting in French:
Passagers Ils étaient 216. Parmi eux figuraient 61 Français, 58 Brésiliens, 26 Allemands, 9 Italiens, 9 Chinois, 6 Suisses, 5 Britanniques, 5 Libanais, 4 Hongrois, 3 Irlandais, 3 Norvégiens, 3 Slovaques, 2 Américains, 2 Espagnols, 2 Polonais, 2 Marocains, 1 Suédois, 1 Estonien, 1 Islandais, 1 Autrichien, 1 Belge, 1 Néerlandais, 1 Croate, 1 Danois, 1 Roumain, 1 Russe, 1 Argentin, 1 Sud-africain, 1 Canadien, 1 Gambien, 1 Philippin, 1 Turc ; 126 hommes, 82 femmes, 7 enfants et un bébé.
Source; Le Monde. There was a memorial (service? demonstration?) at Notre Dame yesterday. Couldn't have happened on a more gorgeous day.