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Did you know? La Chandeleur is celebrated in France on the 2nd of February every year. It is a tradition to make and eat...
Read more →The Lumière brothers from Lyon invented one of the first film cameras and held the world's first public film screening i...
Read more →In France it is considered polite to say 'bonjour' whenever you enter a shop, a café or meet someone for the first time....
Read more →The French word 'la famille' comes from the Latin 'familia'. Interestingly, the French term for in-laws is 'la belle-fam...
Read more →The French word for work, 'le travail', comes from a Latin word meaning an instrument of torture — reflecting how hard l...
Read more →French is an official language in 29 countries across five continents, a legacy of France's colonial history. These coun...
Read more →After the Norman conquest of England in 1066, French became the language of the ruling class and thousands of French wor...
Read more →The French are known for their rich vocabulary of emotions. The expression 'l'esprit de l'escalier', meaning staircase w...
Read more →The French language distinguishes between 'être' (to be permanently) and 'avoir' (to have temporarily) when describing p...
Read more →French numbers reveal an ancient Celtic counting system. The word for eighty, 'quatre-vingts', means four twenties, sugg...
Read more →The French days of the week reveal the ancient Roman influence on the language. Lundi, mardi, mercredi, jeudi and vendre...
Read more →All French month names come directly from Latin and reflect the Roman calendar. During the French Revolution, revolution...
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