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‘English is not a language – it’s just badly spoken French’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoFew would deny that English has conquered the world. But the French have always refused to take this...
‘Simone: Woman of the Century’ Review: Olivier Dahan’s Lavish but Mawkish Biopic of Simone Veil
Variety via Yahoo News· 10 months agoIn 2008, French politician Simone Veil became only the sixth woman ever inducted into the Académie...
Balenciaga Is Now Dressing Academicians, Too
WWD via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFrench literature professor Antoine Compagnon commissioned Balenciaga for the "habit vert" he will wear for his induction at the Académie Française...
From Spanglish to Franglais: What are hybrid languages?
Euronews via Yahoo News· 3 days agoA recent study of the US Latinx community found that 75% could speak Spanish well, leaving a whole...
Meet billionaire L'Oreal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, the richest woman in the world, who...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFrançoise Bettencourt Meyers, the world's richest woman and heiress to the L'Oréal fortune.FRANCOIS...
Prada Hires Sporty New Ambassador; Balenciaga Goes (Custom) Academic
WWD via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPRADA’S SPORTY SIDE: Prada has named Chinese basketball player Shuyu Yang as its latest brand...
France moves closer to banning gender-inclusive language
Euronews via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAuthors of the law, which concerns official communications in France, said gender-inclusive language...
The EU is more obsessed with diversity than its own survival
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months agoDoes the European Union have a death wish? Though facing mortal dangers from within and without, the...
The Things We Can't Say
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 9 months agoIllustration: Lex Villena; Yuliaglam An obscure webpage that Stanford University had quietly published seven months earlier made a huge splash in late...
Françoise Hardy, French music and pop culture icon, dies aged 80
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoFrancoise Hardy, the French singer known for her lilting, melancholy voice, has died aged 80. Her...