Some French Halloween vocabulary…and some really bad French Halloween jokes.
Du Bellay and his contemporaries, the Pléiade, frequently made use of diminutives (violettes, fleurettes, vermeillettes, oeillettes) to add charm to their poems.
Sometimes it’s easier to stay with an unsatisfactory bank, than to research and change to a different one, particularly if you have several accounts. It could be out of the frying pan…
In 2012, Albert Camus, Nobel prize winner and author of some of the greats of French literature, went under scrutiny for a photo in which he was smoking a cigarette.
Are you assiduous?
Did you know that “La Marseillaise”, France’s national anthem, was actually composed in Strasbourg in 1792, not in Marseilles as we might assume?
Don’t forget to turn your clocks back.
Want to know how much your new neighbours paid for their house?
A ‘Proof of Accommodation’ document that your UK visitors could be asked to produce when entering France.
The vaccination campaign against seasonal flu in France will soon launched.