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Doubling a final l and adding a silent e (e.g., gentil → gentille) adds a [j] sound if the l is preceded by the letter i. Some monosyllabic function words ending in a or e, such as je and que, drop their final vowel when placed before a word that begins with a vowel sound (thus avoiding a hiatus). The missing vowel is replaced by an apostrophe.
The graphic charter of government communication is the graphic charter of the logo of France, used by government services. It was adopted in 1999 by the government of Lionel Jospin and revolves around a logo associating Marianne, the tricolour flag and the motto Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité ( transl. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity) to ...
2. Cooked simply. Also used in French heraldry to mean "proper" i.e. in natural colours. au pair a young foreigner who does domestic chores in exchange for room and board. In France, those chores are mainly child care/education. au revoir ! "See you later!" In French, a contraction of Au plaisir de vous revoir ('to the pleasure of seeing you ...
Liberté, égalité, fraternité ( French pronunciation: [libɛʁte eɡalite fʁatɛʁnite] ), French for ' liberty, equality, fraternity ', [1] is the national motto of France and the Republic of Haiti, and is an example of a tripartite motto. Although it finds its origins in the French Revolution, it was then only one motto among others and ...
L'État, c'est moi. L'État, c'est moi ("I am the state", lit. "the state, it is me") is an apocryphal saying attributed to Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre. It was allegedly said on 13 April 1655 before the Parlement of Paris. [1] It is supposed to recall the primacy of the royal authority in a context of defiance with the Parliament ...
20th century: [3] Constitutional Law of 1940 adopted 10 July 1940, established Vichy France. Constitutional law of 2 November 1945, organized the Provisional Government of the French Republic. Constitution of 27 October 1946, established the Fourth Republic. Constitution of 4 October 1958, established the Fifth Republic.
French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100 –1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.
On 28 January 2011, the Council decided that the illegality of same-sex marriages was not contrary to the Constitution, further stating that same-sex marriage legalization was a question for Parliament to decide. [28] On 14 June 2011, the National Assembly of France voted 293–222 against legalizing same-sex marriage. [29]