Sentences with phrase «train grande»
After one more day in Bordeaux and a rainy afternoon in Arcachon (a village near a protected beach on the Atlantic seaside), I boarded a TGV («train grande vitesse») last Friday direct to Paris.
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TGV: All about the TGV, train a grande vitesse, the high speed trains that you can use to travel in France.
Although 150 miles per hour is more than twice as fast as most people travel on the highway, Acela Express trains can not compete with their European and Japanese cousins: the British / French / Belgian Eurostar, the German ICE train (Inter City Express) and the Japanese Shinkansen routinely reach up to 186 miles per hour, and the French TGV (train grande vitesse) travels at up to 200 miles per hour.
Perhaps the best known is French Railways» TGV (train a grande vitesse), which holds the world speed record of 515 kilometres per hour.
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Julia Child is the grande dame of French cooking in North America, her books are a fantastic resource for well - trained cooks as well as...
To make things worse, in certain fields, including biology, French industry hasn't traditionally welcomed Ph.D. - holders, preferring engineers trained in the prestigious Grandes Ecoles, Bossis adds.
To make matters worse, most of the alumni from the science and engineering grandes écoles do not move on to graduate training, preferring management positions in industry to a research career.
Students enter the grandes écoles after the first cycle, for a 3 - year training period (in all, 5 years).
The separation of the Grandes Ecoles from research training is not universal, however.
UTC delivers 5 years of training inspired by the Grandes Ecoles and other European engineering institutions; they call their students ingénieurs.
In contrast to most other Grandes Ecoles, the main aim of the four Grandes Ecoles that belong to the ENS family is the training of researchers and teaching personnel in higher education.
If money's no object, book yourself on the grande dame of European trains — the Orient Express.
Why They Like It: Guests are chauffeured from the train station in a 1967 Rolls - Royce to this grande dame Alpine resort that lies before the Lake St. Mortiz and the Swiss Alps.