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Feb
9
2012

A Mini Dose of French Humor: Politics Explained to Little French Kids!

Before any major election in France, just like any other country, les blagues politiques (political jokes) reign supreme!

The following French joke is actually quite universal, and can be particularly appreciated everywhere in the world where 2012 happens to be a Presidential Elections Year: In les États-Unis (USA), la Russie, l’Inde (India), la Tunisie, le Yemen, la [...]

Feb
9
2012

French mistake? Beaucoup des

What’s wrong with saying beaucoup des? Learn about this potential French mistake.
More: French mistakes | De vs Des

Feb
6
2012

She Loved France with a Passion: A Great Novelist, Mother, and Grandmother

As the national attention of her pays natal (native country), l’Égypte, was overwhelmingly occupied by the stunning popular uprising qui battait son plein (at its height) just a year ago, the disappearance from this world of l’enfant du pays (the native child, or literally “the child of the country”) -who was also of Lebanese extraction and later became French, par adoption- went by almost completely inaperçue (unnoticed)…

Andrée Chedid, romancière, mère [...]

Feb
6
2012

She Loved France with a Passion: A Great Novelist, Mother, and Grandmother

As the national attention of her pays natal (native country), l’Égypte, was overwhelmingly occupied by the stunning popular uprising qui battait son plein (at its height) just a year ago, the disappearance from this world of l’enfant du pays (the native child, or literally “the child of the country”) -who was also of Lebanese extraction and later became French, par adoption- went by almost completely inaperçue (unnoticed)…

Andrée Chedid, romancière, mère [...]

Feb
6
2012

She Loved France with a Passion: A Great Novelist, Mother, and Grandmother

As the national attention of her pays natal (native country), l’Égypte, was overwhelmingly occupied by the stunning popular uprising qui battait son plein (at its height) just a year ago, the disappearance from this world of l’enfant du pays (the native child, or literally “the child of the country”) -who was also of Lebanese extraction and later became French, par adoption- went by almost completely inaperçue (unnoticed)…

Andrée Chedid, romancière, mère [...]