France celebrates 2026 Bastille Day with biggest parade ever
France celebrates Bastille Day 2026 with its largest-ever military parade. It’s all about “grandeur,” or “greatness.” In our new edition of Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t …
Posts in category French-Speaking World
Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong: What effect is the far right having in France?
The steady rise of populism and the far right was one of the factors we examined updating our book Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong …
L’influence mondiale de l’Académie française
Dans Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong, nous expliquons comment l’Académie française a vu le jour et pourquoi elle revêt une importance si fondamentale chez …
Julie Barlow’s “The Best Books for Understanding the French”
See Julie’s recommended reads on France on the new site Shepherd’s Discover the Best Books site: “The Best books for understanding the French.”
The Bonjour Effect on Travel with Rick Steves
On his special Bastile Day show Rick Steves asks us about how the French reacted to our translation of The Bonjour Effect, what they thought …
Critique d’Ainsi parlent les Français dans Le Devoir
Louis Cornellier a écrit dans Le Devoir cette fin de semaine une très belle critique d’Ainsi parlent les Français: “Le sujet est en or — …
CES MAUDITS FRANÇAIS QUI SAVENT SI BIEN «PERLER»
La revue Avenues a bien aimé Ainsi parlent les Français. Ils ont sans doute un biais favorable, Jean-Benoit étant un de leurs chroniqueurs…
Julie interviewed in BBC Story: Why the French don’t Show Excitement
Julie was interview for this BBC story exploring how the concept of “excitement” doesn’t translate into French. “Verbally, ‘I’m so excited’ is sort of a …
The Rude French Waiter Scandal: Julie Barlow interviewed in France-Amérique
Julie was interviewed for an article in France-Amérique’s web magazine about the French waiter who was fired from his job in a Vancouver restaurant for …