An A-Z dictionary of Modern Francea
glossary of terms, including institutions, places, significant people
(excluding most "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, French 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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