Maîtres mots

  • Il y a longtemps que notre pays est beau mais rude.

       --Newspaper editor Olivier Séguret, 25 January 2012

    The USA are entirely the creation of the accursed race, the French.

       --Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), writing to Nancy Mitford, 22 May 1957

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French Freedom of Speech

Today the cheminots are:


  • "À nous de vous faire préférer le train!"
    "Voyager autrement"
    "Avec le SNCF, tout est possible"
      --Former ad slogans of the SNCF (French national trains), each in turn quickly dropped

Fun French words

  • ouistiti

    (literally: marmoset)
    Etymology: onomatopoeia from the sound a marmoset makes. Actual meaning: this is what you say in France when you want people to smile for the camera.

    Selon une étude réalisée par le fabricant d’appareils photo Nikon, le « ouistiti » utilisé en France au moment de se faire prendre en photo est le petit mot le plus efficace pour s’assurer un joli sourire.

Who's en colère today?

  • Private sector

    First strike in 43 years at an aeronautics company in Toulouse, Latécoère


    Public sector

    The SNCF (toujours eux), regional train employees in the Lyons area guaranteeing unpleasant travel from the 17th-21st December
    Also yet another strike by Sud-Rail, a particularly truculent SNCF union in the south of France, this time five days in January: 6,7, 21, 22 and 23. "We have no choice." Right.

    Marseilles trams on strike until February

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Great blog - found it through La Coquette. That woman totally looks like the insecure type to fall for a playboy like Bill Clinton. But that taxi driver, was he being facetious?

Hi Rue Rude.

I'm also a Paris blogger (http://pamela.poole.free.fr/frogblog) and I was at the picnic last June. Were you there?

I wanted to let you know about the new social network for Francophiles I just launched at www.francophilia.com.

It's the first social network exclusively for Francophiles. We've been online for just over a week and we have 75 members (from 18 to 77) from over 10 different countries. All of them are interesting people who have something to share.

There is something there for everyone. Francophilia's features include a personal blog, instant messaging with other online members, live discussion room for members, forum discussions, the ability to create special-interest groups, to publish and RSVP to events, to publish classified adds, photo, video and music uploading, and more.

We're still in beta testing, but we would like to invite you to join us. And please share the news with your Francophile readers and friends!

I look forward to meeting you at Francophilia.

Pamela Poole
Founder


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Today's quotation

  • In Paris, the purest virtue is the object of the filthiest slander.

      –Honoré Balzac (1799-1850), in Scènes de la vie privée

    À Paris, la vertu la plus pure est l'objet des plus sales calomnies.

Le petit aperçu d'Ailleurs

  • Annual Geminids meteor shower (shooting stars!) coming this weekend, if it's not too cloudy out at night.

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