Culture Le Weekend 2/17/23: An All-Black, All-Female Battalion in France During WW2 & How to Cut Cheese 🇫🇷 Many said they were treated better in France and England than back home.
Love & Dating The Winners of the 30 Word French Love Story Contest, 2023!! Read to learn if you won, and if you didn't, who did! Thank you to all! You wrote great 30 word stories!
Culture Le Weekend, 2/10/23: Kissing Like a French Person, A Valentine’s Menu & Every Flavor Crème Brûlée 🇫🇷 French women were ok with a little sloppy tongue action...or were they?
Culture Le Weekend, 2/3/23: How to Save Wild Birds in a Freeze, Love Stories & Flageolet Beans 🇫🇷 Frenchly is celebrating love for our first, and, so far, only, "30 Word French Love Story Contest."
Culture Le Weekend, 1/27/23: Sempé’s cats, I ❤️ Bono, and No Dogs or Italians Allowed 🇫🇷 I said, “I’m going to marry Bono.” He said, “Good luck” and gave me a kiss goodbye.
Culture Le Weekend, 1/20/23: Don’t Push Granny Into the Superfood Nettles, Stone Age Bread & Snow 🇫🇷 Nettles are a wonder plant.
Culture Le Weekend, 1/13/23: The Mystery of Chartreuse, Vert Chaud and the New Film, Saint Omer 🇫🇷 Today, only 2 monks know the full 130 herb recipe to the liqueur.
Culture Le Weekend 1/6/23: Icy Epiphany Plunges, Kings’ Cakes and Trouble in Provence 🇫🇷 Some people exchange gifts on the Epiphany, and some jump naked into freezing cold water...
Culture Le Weekend 12/16/22: Housekeeping Lists, Holiday Cakes, Gifts & Homesickness 🇫🇷 Caitlin’s housekeeping, or tâches ménagères, in 20 random thoughts.
Culture Le Weekend 12/9/22: Allez Les Bleus, Soccer Momming & Gifts for the Francophile Family 🇫🇷 Today, la France, or Team Handsome, will play England.
Culture Le Weekend, 12/2/22: Female Anger in Yiyun Li’s The Book of Goose & Valrhona Chocolate! 🇫🇷 No matter how much damage Fabienne wreaks, Agnès still loves her, more than anyone.
Culture Le Weekend, 11/25/22: I do like a bit of (good French) butter to my bread! 🇫🇷 Butter is the glue that holds our holidays together.