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Get the “L” out of here
A recent Frantastique lesson contained a short animated cartoon called “Mort à l’Académie” (Death at the Academy). It opens with an ominous view of the venerable Académie Française, complete with thunder crackling overhead. A bald man at a desk in … Continue reading
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Tagged Académie Française, Cardinal Richelieu, Championnats d'orthographe, circumflex, dépanneur, Fondation Paul Gérin-Lajoie, Frantastique, girolle, Gymglish, Larousse Dictionary, Maurice Druon, Michel Fugain, Michel Rocard, Office de la Langue française, spelling reform
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Greeting the New Year in French
We’ve never been very good at New Year’s resolutions. I’m still carrying around that five pounds I meant to lose in, um, 2012, and Norman still hasn’t cleaned out the area around his basement work bench. But this time, we … Continue reading
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Tagged Edith Piaf, francophile, Frantastique, Jacques Prévert, Victor Hugo
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