Word: horreur
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...horreur! With many French sports fans still hotly denying accusations that cycling is plagued by doping, imagine the outcry at suggestions that all is not right with the nation's other beloved plebeian pastime - pétanque. The iconic Provençal game (also known as boules, a reference to the three metal balls each player uses) is enjoyed casually by an estimated 15 million French people at least once a year - usually vacationers or older gents whiling away their retirement years. As unstrenuous as its British cousin, darts, pétanque requires contestants to toss their metal projectiles closer...
...purse that came covered in jewels or made of fur, denim or cashmere and hung beneath the armpits of the world's most fashionable women - had to die. After all, they were allowed to live much longer than the laws of fashion usually allow. More than a season? Quelle horreur! Planned obsolescence is all well and good until something so perfect arrives on the scene - think of the pashmina. But now, the baguette's sell-by date has come. And to take its place is a tough-looking rival that could eat the baguette for breakfast...
...charm in her life-the daily trips to the boulangerie and weekly ones to the market, the occasional glass of vin rouge with some fresh p?t?, the tiled roofs and stone walls of the village itself-than many a millionaire in my great home state of Texas. (Quelle horreur! the Puritan mind exclaims, a welfare mother with a glass of wine! In France, however, even welfare mothers are entitled to the occasional vin rouge.) And my impoverished sister-in-law, unlike so many of those millionaires, knows, in the words of Guy de Maupassant, how "to be charming with...
...Disney were patient. The company cut ticket prices and slowly, the tourists started coming. Last year, the park even made a healthy profit, $40 million. With 12 million visitors, it passed the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre to become the country's number one tourist spot. Mon Dieu. Quelle horreur...
...Quelle horreur! Everyone knows the French language is sacrosanct. But that has ( not kept the government of Prime Minister Michel Rocard from trying to reform French spelling to make it easier...