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milliard Brit (no longer in technical use) a thousand million How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Among the bizarre products of their rigorous approach are cofounder Raymond Queneau's book Cent mille milliards de poemes (1961)--which contains ten pages each split into fourteen strips, one for each line of text, that allow the reader (in theory at least) to construct the hundred trillion poems of the title--and Georges Perec's La disparition (1969), a full-length detective novel written without the use of the letter e. En fait, son chiffre d'affaires, actuellement de 20 milliards de dollars, devrait plus que doubler (50 milliards de dollars) d'ici 2005. Born in Montreal in 1953, he made his first short film, Super Maire I'homme de trois milliards, while studying communications at l'Universite du Quebec a Montreal in 1979. |
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