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The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (French pronunciation: [diksjɔnɛːʁ də lakademi fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) is the official dictionary of the French language. The Académie française is France's official authority on the usages, vocabulary , and grammar of the French language, although its recommendations carry no legal power.
a close relationship or connection; an affair. The French meaning is broader; liaison also means "bond"' such as in une liaison chimique (a chemical bond) lingerie a type of female underwear. littérateur an intellectual (can be pejorative in French, meaning someone who writes a lot but does not have a particular skill). [35] louche
The Festival du Vent (English: Festival of the Wind) is an annual arts festival taking place since 1992 in Calvi, Haute-Corse, a town of Corsica, in France. The Festival du Vent takes place since 1992 between October and November. [1] It is regarded as one of the main festivals of Calvi.
Aerial view from 300 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1919) Ouchy harbour (2007) The Château d'Ouchy (2009) The Lausanne CGN boat in Ouchy (2007). Ouchy is a port and a popular lakeside resort south of the centre of Lausanne in Switzerland, at the edge of Lake Geneva (French: lac Léman).
The national public broadcaster, SRG SSR idée suisse, offers three networks, one each for the German, French and Italian-speaking parts of Switzerland. In the German-speaking part, television from Germany is popular, as is television from France in the French-speaking part and television from Italy in the Italian-speaking part.
Vevey (French pronunciation: ⓘ; Arpitan: Vevê; former German: Vivis) is a town in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, on the north shore of Lake Leman, near Lausanne.The German name Vivis is no longer commonly used.
Built by a private landowner and businessman specially to take advantage of an impending border adjustment between the two countries, the structure was originally used as a grocery store (its Swiss portion) and a pub (the French half). Today, the entire building houses a hotel, whose dining room, kitchen and several rooms are bisected by the ...
In 1953, FGRSSM became the Fédération française des activités sous-marines (FFASM) (French federation of underwater activities). In 1954, FFASM changed its name to the Fédération nationale française d’études et de sports sous-marins (FNFESSM) (French national federation of underwater studies and sports) in order to avoid confusion ...