The heat started to arrive in France yesterday. Météo France announces a heat dome over France for this long Pentecost weekend. The temperature is in Celsius in France.
Macron: it is probably a contracted form of Maqueron, Macqueron in Picardy. The word "maqueron" in Picardy designates the chin, in a pejorative way. So it could be the nickname of someone who has a prominent chin. But we will also think, and perhaps above all, of a diminutive of the personal name Macquart (Germanic origin : hard power)
For France, it is obviously England (not UK because Scotland is a historic ally of France before the Stuarts became king of England). We still waged a 116-year war against them because they wanted the crown of France. But since the 19th century, there has been the development of Anglophilia (Napoleon III) in France and Francophilia in England (Victoria and Edward VII) which have brought us closer together. We fought together in the world wars and today Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer get along quite well. We tease each other during the Crunch (France-England rugby match 🏉). We believe we are the only ones who can make fun of the English. The British royal family is of great interest to the French: princely weddings and funerals attract good audiences on French television. In Republican France, British monarchs have street or place names: avenue Victoria, Edward VII theater, Hotel George V, avenue George V, Elizabeth II flower market. Winston Churchill has a statue (it is opposite that of General de Gaulle) and an avenue. Princess Diana has a place near the Pont de l'Alma tunnel where she died in 1997.
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In France, the last death sentence was in 1977 (Hamida Djandoubi). The death penalty was abolished in 1981 thanks to Robert Badinter, the Minister of Justice. It was a campaign promise of the socialist candidate, François Mitterrand in 1981.
In French, it's "un raton-laveur" (washer baby rat). They are known to wash what they eat, hence the word “laveur”.
Paris takes its name from a Gallic people: the Parisii. The Parisii were a people who lived on the banks of the Seine. The city itself was called Lutetia before taking the name of its people in the 4th century AD : Paris.
In Brittany it's kouign amann. It means “butter cake” in Breton. It's a calorie bomb but it's so good. The real kouign amann was born in Douarnenez and it is a cake to share. The unit format is called kouignette.
To be President of the Republic in France, you must:
- be over 18 years old
- be of French nationality
- have civil rights
- have had 500 sponsorships from local elected officials and parliamentarians
- not be under guardianship
Brittany is a peninsula in the northwest of France bathed by the English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean.
Brittany (Breizh in Breton, Bretagne in French) comes from the Latin Brittania. Before the 5th century, Brittany was part of Lyon Gaul province but people called this part : Armorica. Brittania is originally the name of the Roman province which corresponds to present-day England. When the Angles and the Saxons invaded the island of Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries, the Bretons withdrew into present-day Wales, Cornwall, Galicia, but they also landed in Armorica where they mixed with the Gallo-Romans. Armorica became Brittany at this time.