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Wednesday, 28 May 2008
Michel Fournier...

....must not be confused with Michel Fourniret, although they are both French and about the same age (66 and 64, respectively).

Michel Fournier is a retired French Army officer, who hoped to fly a giant helium balloon about 25 miles above Earth and parachute down. He failed:

Tuesday morning before dawn, Fournier and his team of 40 readied for what he has called Le Grand Saut (The Great Leap) from an airport in North Battleford, Saskatchewan. But as spectators watched, his 650-foot-high balloon inflated, then suddenly floated away, leaving the gondola with Fournier inside on the ground. The damaged balloon was recovered 25 miles away.

Michel Fourniret is a serial killer, known as the Ogre of the Ardennes, who has just been jailed for life.

Don't give him a balloon. He'll be over the wall and up to no good before you can say zut alors in a silly high-pitched voice.

Posted on 8:11 AM by Mary Jackson
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28 May 2008
Send an emailHugh Fitzgerald

Instead of confusing "Michel Fournier" with "Michel Fourniret" -- a most implausible entry in some proper-name version of the well-known Dictionary of Confusibles, or is it the Dictionary of Confusables? -- I keep getting them confused but I mean the book  written by Adrian Room (or was it by Adrian Broom, not as in the “broom” of the broomstick on which the witch rides, but the humble roadside broom in bloom of which Leopardi sang at length in “La Ginestra,” unless I'm confusing him with another poet altogether  (oh, I'm so confused)  it is far more likely that Michel Fournier would be confused not with the man referred to as “the ogre” (as Michel Fourniret is known) but with the writer Michel Tournier, whose most famous book, Le roi des Aulnes, has been englished as “The Ogre” thus giving him, the confusable or confusible Michel Tournier,  a confusible or confusable connection not only to Michel Fournier but also to the very  Michel Fourniret whom, you claim, could be confused with Michel Fournier.

 

Got that, or are you confused?   



28 May 2008
Mary Jackson
These damm furrniners are all the same.