The Week: Sabine Herold

National Review's The Week section (editorial comments on various topics) ^ | July 28, 2003 | The Editors of National Review

[WarrenC]

Sabine Herold is hoping to save France from itself. This 21-year-old student has burst onto the Paris scene calling herself a libertarian and a conservative--it doesn't hurt her cause that she is extremely pretty (those eyelashes!) and sophisticated. In the middle of the Iraq war, she and some friends demonstrated outside the American embassy in support of President Bush. In her opinion, the French are anti-American out of injured pride that France is no longer the dominant nation it once was. Even more courageously, she has stood on the steps of the city hall to deliver an impassioned speech against the trade unions and the strikes that have been making life in France a misery these past weeks. The unions are out to protect their privileges, she says, and it's time for someone to mobilize people and defeat what she calls these "reactionary egotists." Joan of Arc, Brigitte Bardot, and Mrs. Thatcher all in one, now that's a new role model.

[crazykatz]

Nice poster... where is from exactly?

[tictoc]

Good site, outstanding articles (in French).

Thank you for the link!

[Hermann the Cherusker]

She's also an extremist feminist, pro abortion, pro euthanasia, etc., etc. Read her public articles.

[reformed_democrat]

Ok, my French-speaking colleague, I need some assistance.
How would you pronounce her name?
SA-bine (long A, long I)
sa-BINE (short A, long I)
or some other variation I can't possibly imagine (I'm still trying to figure out how "Hors D'Ouerves" becomes "or-durves").

[Constitution Day]

I found it on her site.

[crazykatz]

She IS a Libertarian, right?

[B-Chan]

Zuh-BEE-nuh is how I'd say it.

Which of course may be wrong. My French stinks.

[reformed_democrat]

ARRRGH!!!

Damn French.
Why can't they speak Japanese. The vowels have only one sound, and the accent is on nothing.

Of course, you do have to learn how to read the pictures, but that's beside the point.

[B-Chan]

Kanojo wa o namae za-bi-na, desu ne?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Vive la France! (Never thought I'd say that again!)

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

M'épouserez-vous ?

[reformed_democrat]

That's right.

I may not know what I'm saying, but at least I'm pronouncing it correctly.

[Sabine]

Hi all,

I'm sorry, I don't have time to come quite often on free-republic. Ouu fight is going on pretty well in France, maybe we can help this country to reform (at last!), yet that's pretty hard work...

I'd like to know if some of you would be interested in helping us... We have an international (and multilingual) website (www.beloved-freedom.com) that we are renewing (we had to left it over as we had no time to take care of it). Many foreign people asked us to renew it (as they had heard about our fight is France). We now have a team in England, one in Italy, one is being built in New Zealand and Italy. Would some of you be interested in building one in the US? The issue is writing libertarian articles on any issue (mostly related to current events).

Also feel free to leave messages on the forum!

Sabine

PS: you can contact me at sabine@liberte-cherie.com
PS bis: pleased you liked the picte ;)

[Sabine]

I forgot to say:
the new focus of the site is European-Atlantic libertarian.
of course ;)

[SauronOfMordor]

A better pic

[winner3000]

Ok, my French-speaking colleague, I need some assistance.
How would you pronounce her name?
SA-bine (long A, long I)
sa-BINE (short A, long I)

Response:
Pronounce the A the same as in Za Za Gabor
Pronounce the I the same as in Bee
Pronounce the N
Don't pronounce the E

I hope that helped.

[Consort]

...The Liberal, Katrina vanden Heuvel, looks like Sabine.