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Just discovered a French curiosity, the Rosalie, a bicycle that seats four!

(Mentioned in Candice Renoir, S02E01)

EDIT
A broader definition seems to be a four-wheeled pedal-powered vehicle.

http://www.monocycle.fr/magasin/fun-c-1 ... -1473.html

https://francequadricycle.fr/

http://www.rosalie-france.fr/

The 'logical conclisions to this sort of thing are generally to be found here in NL:



Or even more bizarre, this general disgrace the 'bierfiets' which is a pedal-powered travelling bar...

I listened to this interview with Canadian soprano/conductor Barbara Hannigan. She lives in France these days and gives her interviews in very creditable French. I thought it might be good for listening because the interviewer gives her a bit of a break, letting her speak at her own pace (though offering to end her sentences at times!). Hannigan has a good accent, you can hear she says words like 'opportunitié' with a slight English drawl. Nevertheless she's fluent with a very natural-sounding accent.

https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/ ... -orchestre

belgian/wallon expression: ".. fonctionne de que"

I heard this in a YouTube video, the auto-generated transcript is:

... dix sept tentatives une seule qui fonctionne de que comme on dit en belgique

I can't find "de que" in any dictionary, but from the context I think "barely" or "badly" would fit.

I think it just means only one of the 17 attempts worked.

Only one of them worked 'at that'.

One of the candidates for next year's French presidential election speaks several languages:

"Valérie #Pécresse est la plus dangereuse face à E. #Macron parce qu’elle lui ressemble. C’est une sorte de sosie d’E. Macron. Elle a fait HEC, l’ENA. Elle parle le japonais, le russe. Elle a un profil similaire et elle est extrême déterminée".

https://twitter.com/Cdanslair/status/14 ... 4196436992

https://www.valeriepecresse.fr/

DaveAgain wrote:One of the candidates for next year's French presidential election speaks several languages:
https://www.valeriepecresse.fr/

Even better were her last name Breve, but one can't have everything.

This Valérie, I remember her gaffe at the side of François Fillon some years ago. Ambitious indeed.

Anyone interested in taking a history break may be interested in viewing L'Histoire par l'image

Apprendre une nouvelle langue

An episode of On en parle on Swiss radio RTS.

Everyone has trouble learning languages;even when it's one of the official languages of the country in which you live !

https://www.rts.ch/audio-podcast/2021/a ... 84746.html