Holidays

Jours fériés - French holidaysFrance has 11 public holidays (bank holidays), known as jours fériés, jours chômés, fêtes chômées, or fêtes légales.

   

Bastille Day à fond

Bastille DayThis issue of Lawless French à fond takes an in-depth look at the French national holiday and explains everything you could possibly want to know about the celebration of Bastille Day.
 

   

   

Lawless French à fond

Lawless French à fondOne day, I was idly thinking about French questions that get asked over and over, and inspiration struck: why not create a one-stop resource for lessons, practice exercises, and related content for those knotty topics? And thus Lawless French à fond was born.

   

   

Elections

French election vocabulary
In French election years, the news is filled with an array of specialized words and phrases you might not be familiar with. Here's some essential vocabulary to help you make sense of everything.