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What are the french canoes called?

Well I always see in movies/shows/cartoons those canoes where a boy and a girl sit in it and the french person in the back standing rowing the boat, I am wondering what they are called so i can look up pictures because I want to draw them for an assignment in art class

Public Comments

1. a gondola? not sure if its french though...morelike italian http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&resnum=0&q=gondola&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
2. I'm thinking gondola too, because you mentioned a person standing in the back rowing. Are you looking for the French bateau, pl. bateaux? Seems to be used to refer to many kinds of boats, but has a specific reference to a shallow flat bottomed canoe-like boat with a sharply pointed bow and stern. I'm not aware that they stand to row them. http://www.abcfunny.com/PicsView.php?T=moteurs&D=bateaux&Page=3&Num=67
3. im from france and they are called gondolas