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Divine Inspiration
Despite the French maintaining for years that NASA had copied the Sacre Coeur church in Paris when designing and building the Space Shuttle, NASA has always refused to accept that it got its inspiration from a building whose founding stone was laid as far back as 1870.
In a typical gesture of French superiority, a full-size mock-up of the space shuttle has been constructed at Montmartre in order to juxtapose the striking similarities between the two structures. Understandably the Americans are not very happy about what they consider to be blatant plagiarism of their intellectual property.
" Mais non!! Is not plagiarism" states Pierre Lespace, a high ranking official in the French government. "Ah these Americans you know, always they are so veery, very touchy. They steal our idea, we are simply stealing it back! If they don't like it, qu’ils mangent de la brioche !*"
*Let them eat cake - translator's note.
Divine Inspiration
Despite the French maintaining for years that NASA had copied the Sacre Coeur church in Paris when designing and building the Space Shuttle, NASA has always refused to accept that it got its inspiration from a building whose founding stone was laid as far back as 1870.
In a typical gesture of French superiority, a full-size mock-up of the space shuttle has been constructed at Montmartre in order to juxtapose the striking similarities between the two structures. Understandably the Americans are not very happy about what they consider to be blatant plagiarism of their intellectual property.
" Mais non!! Is not plagiarism" states Pierre Lespace, a high ranking official in the French government. "Ah these Americans you know, always they are so veery, very touchy. They steal our idea, we are simply stealing it back! If they don't like it, qu’ils mangent de la brioche !*"
*Let them eat cake - translator's note.