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October is here! And you know what that means, l'hiver arrive. (Winter is coming.) And if you've not shopped for your winter wardrobe yet, you may want to take into account the new fashion trend in Paris: le col roulé, aka the…
As the country with so much history with neighbouring England, you can imagine that the Queen's funeral has gotten round-the-clock coverage in France. In a bit of strange timing, the subject of my last newsletter, Royal historian and TV host Stephen…
So I thought of a rather fun and random topic today, because I thought that it was the sort of thing that even if you visited France a dozen times, you may not necessarily get into French pop culture. The…
Well, it’s been a few weeks since the last newsletter, hasn’t it!? We’ve been off on holidays, navigating airports, luggage carousels, and vax-certificates, and are now finally back for the last couple of lazy weeks of August in Paris. (Yes,…
So I will say, the French word of the week was dictionary-worthy for me as well, and indeed for many local Parisians. Trending all over French twitter this week is the head-scratching hashtag #surmulot. A quick search in google to…
Every week I start to write this newsletter, aiming for a lovely interesting topic about La Belle France, but lately the topics have been anything but “lovely”. Lately it just seems to be taken over by current events that are impossible…
So we are in the middle of two rounds of the legislative elections (1st round June 12th and 2nd round June 19th), however as we are all still hungover from the presidential election 6 weeks ago, I have decided that…
With all the news in the world, I confess I did not have the stomach to send out a newsletter last week. Is it me or do some things just punch you in the gut more, as we get older? In an…
Printemps! Or rather, springtime in France, what could be better! The clouds are drifting away, the covid cases are falling and the streets are filled with foreign visitors again, after 2 years of restrictions. It was French school holidays again (let's face it,…
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise, but for the majority voting French, the word of the week has to be "soulagement". In other words, "a big relief". Yes, election polls had indicated President Macron was leading against right-wing Le Pen,…
Yes, it is another newsletter about the French election. I know, I know, I'm over all the rhetoric as well, but there is no help for it, we've all got to hold on till April 24th. (Until the legislatives that…
Did you know in French the word for rollercoaster is “montagnes russes”? The name dates back to the time someone had the bright (dumb?) idea to go down hilly slopes at high speed for fun, around the Ural mountains in…
The Ides of March, which is a lunar date around March 15th, once signified the new year with much celebrations and rejoicing. Until Julius Caesar happened to find himself in the way of Brutus’s knife on that fateful day. It would be centuries…
So you may have noticed that I haven’t sent a newsletter over the past couple of weeks. (Or not noticed at all, there is a lot going on in the world and this is hardly that important!) It was actually school…
I don’t know about you, but lately I’ve seen a lot of chatter over the past few months about something that we can only dare to dream about: the 4-day work week. With a variety of media from Le Monde…
So the hot potato of the moment in France is what to do about the schools. Schools, it would appear, seem to be frequented by those germy little monsters who lick the banisters and don’t seem to know that there…
Bonne année and Happy New Year from Paris! Yes, it is actually 2022, or “2020 two” as some folks are calling it. It has been a rather quiet start to the year, however with a major communication fail on New Year’s…
It is the last newsletter of 2021 as we’re hobbling along to Noël and counting down the greek alphabet. I hope you and yours are doing well where ever in world you are. School in France is out at the end of the…
We’ve had quite a few discussions about French politics in the last couple of newsletters, so I thought I would talk about something different for a change: French football! (Aka soccer for those North Americans out there). Now don’t tune…
What is your favorite hue of blue? That is the question that French people having been asking themselves this week, when one intrepid reporter noticed that French President Macron appears to have changed the color of the French flag: https://twitter.com/bevmalta_/status/1459990979927236612?s=20…