Test your French with an extract from a classic, autumnal poem by Jacques Prévert
His stage name of Le Petomane (loosely translated as “the farter”) rather gives it away!
Many a Bac (equivalent of A-Levels) student has quivered at the sight of Victor Hugo’s name on the test paper… how will you fare with this 19th century poem?
Some French Halloween vocabulary…and some really bad French Halloween jokes.
Did you know that “La Marseillaise”, France’s national anthem, was actually composed in Strasbourg in 1792, not in Marseilles as we might assume?
At the end of WW2I, the BBC used the opening lines of this poem to signal the start of D-Day operations.
Have you thought about buying your next car or home by auction?
Did you know that nationalities and languages (English, French, Spanish….) are always capitalised in the English language….
Un type rentre dans un bar…..
Claude Francois was an Egyptian-born French pop singer, songwriter and dancer, who wrote and composed “Comme d’habitude”, the original version of “My Way”.