"J'ai toujours vu que pour réussir dans le monde, il fallait avoir l'air fou et être sage."
"I have noticed that to succeed in life, it is necessary to appear to be mad and to act wisely."
(Montesquieu, philosopher.)
It's easy enough to wheel out a few standard GCSE French Phrases, but "Une bière et un poulet frites" will only get you so far. They say the real spirit of a language is in its idioms, so Franceinlondon collected a few to help you roll with the natives...
When strolling through Chiswick, in west London, on a week-end, one can come across a bilingual restaurant board enticing the many French families now settled in the area to come in and enjoy the food. However, ten years ago, French home seekers were reluctantly being driven away from Frog’s valley(Kensington and Chelsea)...
How have property prices evolved in both cities ? UK property prices have risen by 410% between 1986 and 2006 and the trend could not be more similar in Paris.