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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.
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). [36] louche
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).
Swiss French (French: français de Suisse or suisse romand) is the variety of French spoken in the French-speaking area of Switzerland known as Romandy. French is one of the four official languages of Switzerland, the others being German, Italian, and Romansch. In 2020 around 2 million people, or 22.8% of the population, in Switzerland spoke ...
French-speaking population in the Canton of Fribourg in 2000. The linguistic boundary between French and German is known as Röstigraben (lit. "rösti ditch", adopted in Swiss French as barrière de rösti). The term is humorous in origin and refers both to the geographic division and to perceived cultural differences between the Romandy and ...
The Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS) (French pronunciation: [ʁadjo televizjɔ̃ sɥis]) is a public service audiovisual company belonging to the Société suisse de radiodiffusion et télévision (SSR). Part of SRG SSR, RTS handles production and broadcasting of radio and television programming in French for Switzerland.
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.
Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques (CMAS; known in English as the World Underwater Federation) is an international federation that represents underwater activities in underwater sport and underwater sciences, and oversees an international system of recreational snorkel and scuba diver training and recognition.