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In France, as in many European countries, friends generally are of the same sex, and friendship is seen as basically a relationship between men. (41)___.
And many French people doubt the possibility of a friendship between a man and a woman. There is also the kind of relationship within a group - men and women who have worked together for a long time, who may be very close, sharing great loyalty and warmth of feeling. They may call one another - copains - a word that in English becomes "friends" but has more the feeling of "pals" or "buddies". In French eyes this is not friendship, although two members of such a group may well be friends.
For the French, friendship is one-to-one relationship that demands a keen awareness of the other person’s intellect, temperament and particular interests. (42)___.
Your political philosophy assumes more depth, appreciation of a play becomes sharper, taste in food or wine is enhanced, enjoyment of a sport is intensified.
And French friendships are divided into categories. A man may play chess with a friend for thirty years without knowing his political opinion, or he may talk politics with him for a long time without knowing about his personal life. Different friends fill different niches in each person’s life. (43)___These duties, also serious and required, are primarily for relatives. Men who are friends may meet in a caf6. Intellectual friends may meet in large groups for evenings of conversation. Working people may meet at the little bistro where they drink and talk, far from the family. (44)___.
In the past in France, friendships of this kind seldom were open to any but intellectual women. (45)___. The special relationship of friendship is based on what the French value most - on the mind, on having the same outlook, on vivid a awareness of some chosen area of life.
[A] These friendships are not made part of family life. A friend is not expected to spend evenings being nice to children or courteous to a deaf grandmother.
[B] A Frenchman explains, "If I were to say to you in France, ’This is my good friend’ , that person would not be as close to me as someone about whom I said only, ’ This is my friend. ’ Anyone about whom I have to say more is really less."
[C] Since most women’s lives centered on their homes, their warmest relations with other women often went back to their girlhood.
[D] Marriage does not affect such friendship; wives don’t have to be taken into account.
[E] Frenchwomen laugh at the idea that "women can’t be friends", but they also admit sometimes that for women "it is a different thing".
[F] Between French friends, who have chosen each other for the similarity of their point of view, lively disagreement and sharpness of argument are the breath of life.
[G] A friend is someone who draws out your own best qualities, with whom you sparkle and become more of whatever the friendship draws upon.