Holidays-April Fools’ Day-Poisson d’avril

Holidays

  For the non-francophiles among us, the poisson d’avril (fish of April) is the French equivalent of our April Fool’s Day. Paper fish are surreptitiously stuck on someone’s back and when the person discovers this: Ha-ha! Poisson d’avril!...

Holidays – Hanukkah – Fête des Lumières

Holidays

I’ve been researching French Hanukkah and Judaïca vocabulary. And I’ve noticed that l’orthographe (the spelling) of Hanukkah is all over the place in French as it is in English. Additions and corrections appreciated. English to French Chanukah...

Holidays – Paris Halloween

Holidays

Halloween may not be as popular in France as it is in the US, but you’d never know it from the crowd in front of these side-by-side costume stores in Montmartre. The line went around the corner for more than the two hours  I was in the area.