Je was op zoek naar: io parlo poco francese (Spaans - Engels)

señor comisario, se ha dicho, con una exageración un poco francesa, que la introducción del euro es el acontecimiento más importante que ha vivido europa desde 1917.
commissioner, it has been said, with slight gallic exaggeration, that the introduction of the euro is the most important event which has taken place in europe since 1917.

el que nos escribía era evidentemente un amigo argentino de yves, ya que la carta estaba escrita en un francés “traducido” del español, llena de expresiones muy poco francesas.
the person who wrote was probably an argentinian friend of yves because the letter was written in a french "translated" from spanish and filled with very few french phrases.