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At the end of WW2I, the BBC used the opening lines of this poem to signal the start of D-Day operations.
Test your French with a giggle: le gendarme à la ferme. See if you can understand what happens when the gendarme gets too big for his boots at the farm
Can you find the English equivalent of these ‘faux amis’?
Using proverbs in your French conversation won’t necessarily make you sound like a native but they’re good to know and can be useful.
Un type rentre dans un bar…..
Test Your French. Good to see that the Gendarmerie des Pyrénées-Orientales have a sense of humour.
House of the Rising Sun or Le Pénitencier, sung here in French by Johnny Hallyday
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French writer and poet describes the massacre as unspeakable, its wounds so deep that we dare not mention them, in this desolate poem, ‘Oradour’.