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    â€œOn account of if der’s some way dey can prove dat Babar belongs to de people, well dey’ll do it fer sure, and den der could be a Babar on every street corner, no problem. Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité , remember?”
    â€œThose French’re even more rimmed dan I tot.”
    104.82.2
    Moncton
    Acadians are often criticized — and not least by each other — for pronouncing words containing an è as though it were an é. Père (pair) and mère (mair) for example, are often pronounced pére (payr), and mére (mayr) . Of course, this is actually the old French pronunciation. But such ways of speaking seem old fashioned in the ears of the Other, as though this inability to adapt to modern French was evidence of a failure to adapt to modern life itself.
    105.33.5
    Chiac Lesson
    Having answered the door and greeted Le Petit Étienne, Zablonski was surprised:
    â€œTerry’s not with you?”
    â€œNo. I’m old enough.”
    â€œYes, of course you are.”
    Before closing the door, the painter glanced down the hall, thinking Terry might have followed the child at some distance, just to be sure he’d arrived at his destination safely. But he saw no one. After which, he admired the candour of the little fellow who proceeded to take his usual place at the end of the room by the large windows looking out over the sun drenched city.
    106.13.9
    Paternity
    It is too soon to speak of the Other.
    107.138.1
    The Other
    At first Le Grand Étienne had some difficulty imparting his knowledge to Le Petit Étienne. He thought he’d begin initially with a basic differenciation: warm colours and cold colours. Wrong. Le Petit Étienne described as warm all the colours Le Grand Étienne classified as cold and as cold all those supposedly warm. The artist came at the problem in various ways, but none seemed to work. In the end, just to avoid having to declare this first pedagogical exercise a failure, the painter declared:
    â€œWell, really, it’s not that important.”
    Le Petit Étienne did not disagree. The master decided that a light snack might soften the learning curve. He fetched milk and cookies, putting on some music on the way, and came back to sit by his pupil, next to the large windows where they could watch the comings and goings in the neighbourhood. It was this pause that allowed him to break through the impasse. Le Petit Étienne had a question:
    â€œWhich colour is vert laine ?”
    Vert laine ? Green wool? Étienne Zablonski tried to think where the boy had seen green wool.
    108.2.9
    Colours
    Freud’s massive oeuvre defies simplification. Which explains the need for a roundabout approach. First impression: after several months in Paris, at age 30, Freud returns to Vienna convinced that, as the eminent Charcot had argued, the study of anatomy was complete, the era of neurosis was at hand.
    109.39.1
    Freud Circuitously
    The small and more or less scientific survey on perceptions of the colour of vowels was taken up at the Babar, which had subscribed to L’Acadie nouvelle as a service to the clientele. A few lines on the survey had appeared as filler in the newspaper.
    â€œAs wot, you say?”
    â€œFiller.”
    â€œAn’ wot’s dat, I’d like to know.”
    â€œA short article in a newspaper. Not more than a paragraph or two usually. To fill in the space.”
    â€œWot d’ya mean, ‘fill in de space’? Wot space are we talkin’ about?”
    110.6.4
    The Babar
    Claude Garamond created the first type foundry independent of a printer. A Parisian, Garamond (1499–1581) probably based his roman characters, which are the basis for all classical typefaces, on the type of Geoffroy Tory, Alde Manuce, and Francesco Griffo. The subsequent appearance of Baskerville type in England and Didot in France rendered Garamond all but invisible for more than a century, but the