The French Revolution was a bloody affair, only confirmed by the gory spectacle we witnessed in the Olympic Games opening ceremony. You may think we would be over the Ancien Régime and the abolition of privileges would put us off its most extravagant and scandalous excesses. Pas du tout ! The Château de Versailles boasted 8,4 million visitors in 2024, Buckingham Palace only 647,000. It is the subject of numerous films and TV series, and Marie-Antoinette stars in a new exhibit

Young people going to universities in France can no longer write meaningful sentences without any gross grammatical mistakes. That’s the observation made by French professors Aude Denizot in her new book “Pourquoi nos étudiants ne savent plus écrire ?” (Why our students no longer know how to write?”), and J.P. Brighelli with his best-selling book “La fabrique du crétin” (Manufacture of a cretin). French grammar is notoriously complex and full of inconsistencies. But that’s wh

“Go for it égal lancez-vous”, “Mood égal humeur”, these are the last lines of a current radio spot for Basic-Fit on the French radio....

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“Comment on dit ‘langues étrangères’ en anglais ?” asked a giggling young French college student after being asked by a journalist in...