An
A-Z dictionary
of
Modern France
a
glossary of terms, including institutions,
places, significant people
(excluding
most fleeting film stars and "people" people), French specialities, and
a selection
of other useful or intriguing expressions....
Alphabetical
selection: choose
a page ....
When
it comes to talking about France, films, TV programmes, radio
broadcasts, conversations, books and magazines are full of names, expressions and terminology that is familiar to any
educated Frenchman or woman, but may be meaningless to the reader,
viewer or listener who has never lived nor been brought up in France or
a French cultural environment. From the Académie
Française to Zinédine Zidane, they
include a vast array of names and words.
The About-France.com
Dictionary of France is
an encyclopaedic dictionary, a glossary bringing together and
explaining the most
important words and names that
the reader, viewer or listener is liable to come across. It includes
prominent people in modern France (though not necessarily
the most talked about or photographed), the institutions of modern
France, the organisations, the defining moments of modern French
history, the key places in modern France, the cultural icons and
emblems, and other words and phrases that belong to life in modern
France, but can leave the foreigner totally perplexed.
You will find in this dictionary a range of
terminology, including perplexing
words of phrases from French life, notably French officialdom. You can
learn what an arrêté
is, or what a Préfet
is; but if it's a dictionary of the French language that you're looking
for, or a French-English dictionary, the Dictionary of France will only
be of very limited assistance.
FRENCH QUIZ....... Do
you need
this dictionary? Test your knowledge of modern France...
Here is just a selection of twenty topics
covered in the About-France.com
Dictionary of France. What does each word or phrase
signify? How many of them you can define, without looking at the
dictionary?
ASSEDIC,
Bison futé,
Commune,
Delanoé,
Evian Agreement,
France Bleu, Grand Cru,
Hexagone,
Journal Officiel, Leclerc, Marianne,
Matignon,
Mutuelles, Numéro Vert,
Obélix,
PACS, Préfet, RMI,
Saumur, SMIC.
The
dictionary of France is a permanently
ongoing project
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