French

Julia Child’s version is the one most Americans know, a stalwart of “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” that calls for sweet dark cherries or summer berries.

Two people have died attempting to cross the English Channel on Saturday morning, French officials have told AFP news agency.

I think part of it was a callback to “The French Connection.”

Born to an Indian father and a Vietnamese mother in Saigon, Sobhraj grew up in France where his mother moved after marrying a French soldier.

Thirteen years after he left office, he is about to become the first former French president to be sent to prison after getting a five-year term for criminal conspiracy.