Martin Léon
If you’re a Quebecker, you’ll probably recognize the background music playing on our speaking page. It’s Quebec singer-songwriter Martin Léon’s song “C’est ça qui est …
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Livin’ in the francophonie?
Last Saturday over a lunch of steamies and toastés at our favourite Montreal greasy spoon, Jean-Benoit and I tried to tackle a lofty question: what …
The Story of French in The Independent
Plus ça Change, by Jean-Benoît Nadeau & Julie Barlow Revive la différence! By John Lichfield When I was three, I was fluent …
The New York Times Reviews The Story of French
The French Have a (Precise and Elegant) Word for It By William Grimes During the 2004 presidential primaries, Senator John Kerry , a fluent French …
Successful languages: Authors say english has helped french
By Pat Donnelly Who knew that at the time of the French Revolution, the vast majority (about 75 per cent) of the population of France …
So What Makes The French So French?
What makes the French so infuriatingly French? By Philip Delves Broughton From our old apartment in Paris, I used to walk our dog down the …
We’re from Mars, the French are from…
By Peter Oliva In 1831, 66 years before Edmond Rostand created the Gascon character Cyrano de Bergerac, a little-known German correspondent was writing a series …