The Wordsmith
Anyone who has ever driven into a French city will have noticed the vast corridors of charmless shopping centers lined with giant billboards that […]
The Wordsmith
From unemployment and poverty to crime and riots, the towns around France’s major cities seem to be no-go-zones and a focal point for the […]
The Wordsmith
It is not uncommon for the French to be associated with their Celtic origins. This is generally a way of criticizing their rebellious spirit […]
The Wordsmith
Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve are two key dates in the French festive calendar, and both follow a longstanding set of specific codes. […]
The Wordsmith
During the riots that rocked French cities last summer, often led by young people with immigrant backgrounds, the term ensauvagement returned to the fore. […]
The Wordsmith
In France, September is when people return to work and study after the summer vacation, and everything restarts all at once in factories, offices, […]
The Wordsmith
With climate change, temperature spikes are becoming increasingly common. Some 20,000 years after the end of the ice age, we are now entering the […]
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Many French towns have become renowned for a culinary specialty or a typical product, while others owe their fame to a particular event. Here […]
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Protecting the environment and fighting global warming have become obsessions, and with good reason. Everything comes down to environmentalism. So much so that there […]
The Wordsmith
First observed in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, this term taken from Ancient Greece – today used to describe a privileged […]
