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La Semaine Prochaine (Next Week) Posted by on Oct 1, 2012

There is something that you need to know about setting up appointments in French: When for example someone tells you “on se voit jeudi prochain“, although it may translate literally as the English “we meet up *next* Thursday”, i.e. not this upcoming Thursday but the Thursday of the following week, in reality it means the…

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French poem: Sous le pont Mirabeau Posted by on Jan 22, 2011

““Sous le pont Mirabeau”: The poem dedicated to the mythical pont parisien (Parisian bridge) which has fascinated generations after generations of Frenchmen: From Guillaume Apollinaire, l’auteur du poème (the author of the poem)  to Marc Lavoine, en passant par Léo Ferré!   Le pont Mirabeau (The Mirabeau Bridge) * * * * * * Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine Under the…

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