Libération newspaper article

[Solaris]

This woman is stunning beyond belief and every word that comes out of her mouth is like precious little gems. She really is a very intelligent human being and thats just so attractive! And she doesn't drink much, thats good cause once I see you drunk I lose so much respect for the person. Alizée is just simply wonderful.

[aditya8617]

Nice written article. Gives a lot of information about Alizee quite subtly. Thanks for the translation Cooney.

[JCC]

Originally Posted by Cooney

She can’t resist getting the latest digital gadgets, and knows perfectly the correct inventory of the respective strengths and weaknesses of Macs and PC’s......

**SIGH** I think i'm in love!

[sjcrookston]

I want to know is Alizee supports King Sarkozy, that guy is the man.

And she likes Harry Potter! Ahh she is wonderful

[fsquared]

Originally Posted by Deepwaters

I just thought of something. I'm assuming Alizée read the Potter books in French translation. I wonder how they dealt with Fleur Delacoeur? Fleur, for the Potter-deprived, is a French witch who is part veela (the veela being supernatural creatures of magical feminine beauty who cast spells on men and turn them stupid) (resemblance to any actual French women is purely accidental, of course).

Anyway, Fleur's dialogue is written in a French accent, when she isn't speaking French. How would one handle that when the book itself is in French?

A related question would apply to Nabokov's Lolita, because Humbert would often say things in French. I'm quite curious as to how this device is handled in translation.

Here's a discussion of what was done for the French translation:

http://harrypotter.intertrust.ru/hos...d!OpenDocument


Characters' accents also had to be conveyed. "It is difficult to give a character an accent in French without being silly, because accents are very strong here." The accent of Hagrid, a misguided and heavy-footed giant, is hard to define - it originates somewhere in northern England - so Menard gave him a friendly and simple way of speaking. But when the pseudo-French school Beauxbatons 'arrived' in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire the problem became more complex. For Menard: "It was impossible to translate because you cannot write French with a French accent". So Menard gave the characters certain ways of speaking instead. "Madame Maxine is a snobbish French woman so she speaks in a very precious way" Menard laughs. "Fleur has a traditional French arrogance" so she speaks with an incredulous tone of voice.

[Cooney]

Ack, I just noticed I made a stupid error on one of the things it says about her... sorry to say it's one of the things people have commented on the most -

Where I wrote "doesn't like drinking" it should have said "doesn't like clubbing." For some reason I mentally replaced 'boites' (nightclubs) with 'boire' (to drink) while writing, and hosed the meaning.

So, to be clear:

She doesn't like night clubs. It doesn't say anything either way about drinking.

My apologies.

[Ben]

Thanks for the translation (and correction) Cooney.

[CFHollister]

Originally Posted by JCC

**SIGH** I think i'm in love!

A little late for that reaction; don't you think?

[Fish]

Originally Posted by CFHollister

A little late for that reaction; don't you think?

It only reaffirms what we already know

[Rev]

Originally Posted by Cooney

Where I wrote "doesn't like drinking" it should have said "doesn't like clubbing." For some reason I mentally replaced 'boites' (nightclubs) with 'boire' (to drink) while writing, and hosed the meaning.

So, to be clear:

She doesn't like night clubs. It doesn't say anything either way about drinking.

My apologies.

I'm glad she is not doing a Britney. However, with her dancing background I bet she could cook on the dance floor.

I spent some time at Studio 54 in it's heyday, and when dancers came in from Broadway they set the place on fire with their moves.