#francophone

[obsessioncollector]

Memory says of the event: it once was and now it will never be again. The irremediable character of what has no present, of what is not even there as having once been there, says: it never happened, never for a first time, and yet it starts over, again, again, infinitely. It is without end, without beginning. It is without a future.

Maurice Blanchot, The Space of Literature, trans. Ann Smock

[didierleclair]

LECTURE. JEAN DE DIEU À PARIS EN 1941.

[whostheflyestwhiteboyofthemall]

lang changes for sure but sometimes i hear like the ytbers i watch say je suis si exicté in a context tht def means excited emotionally n not sexually n im like 10 years of hearing every french teacher caution us to nvr say such what is going on 😭😭😭

[slowandsimplyseasonal]

Chambord 🇫🇷

#frenchpatrimoine

[yohannklucem]

Il y a des Français ou des francophones intéressés par la chasteté masculine, ici ?

Mettez un like ou une note pour répondre présent !

[everswanafter]

me when i stubbed my toe on a chair leg earlier: “TABARNAK, TABARNAK!”

my lovely bestie amélie on ft w/me: …tu dis?

and then i had to explain to her how quebec french uses the names of holy items as swear words (sacres) due to the social control and influence of the catholic clergy in the 19th century being a source of frustration (which eventually led to the secularisation of our government a century later but i won’t go into that now) and how we’re never beating the passive aggressive/condescending allegations…(although i suppose i cheated the system by being canadian american)

[paschameleon]

Here is my Turning Red OC.

Meet Béatrice Demers, a shy Franco-Ontarian girl who has recently moved to Toronto with her family. She lives with her parents and younger brother, Étienne, and although she’s a bit quiet at first, she’s pretty lively once you get to know her.

With a deep love for her culture and history, Béatrice embraces her heritage and enjoys learning about it at every opportunity.

When she starts school she becomes a part of Mei’s friend group. Despite some initial conflicts, the girls get along well.

[fassylovergallery]

c h r i s t i a n

[b-eli-er]

sans compter le drapeau arc-en-ciel il me semble qu'il n'y a aucun drapeau queer qui a la couleur rouge… pour quoi… ?

[obsessioncollector]

I wanted to kill—my elder brother, I wanted to kill him, to get the better of him for once, just once, and see him die. I wanted to do it to remove from my mother’s sight the object of her love, that son of hers, to punish her for loving him so much, so badly, and above all—as I told myself, too—to save my younger brother, my younger brother, my child, save him from the living life of that elder brother superimposed on his own, from that black veil over the light, from the law which was decreed and represented by the elder brother, a human being, and yet which was an animal law, filling every moment of every day of the younger brother’s life with fear, a fear that one day reached his heart and killed him.

Marguerite Duras, The Lover, trans. Barbara Bray

[sparklearoacequeen]

[bimdraws]

French citizens for a free Palestine 🇨🇵🇵🇸

[gravalicious]

(L-R) Dienabâ Ba, Aimé Césaire, Margeurite Senghor and Virginie Camara at The 1st International Conference of Negro Writers and Artists, Paris, Sorbonne, 19th-22nd September 1956.

[corbeau-irise]

[eng]: okay this is a question for ppl who speak French as their native language! i speak it as a second language, right? but i’ve always been curious: what is the transition like when it comes to shifting from using “vous” to address a person to using “tu”?? is it like a friendship/intimacy upgrade?? does there need to be a conversation about it before hand (like “what are we?”).

[fr]: j’ai une question pour les personnes qui parlent français comme leur langue maternelle. je le parle comme ma deuxième langue, hein ? mais je suis toutefois curieuse : la transition de utilisant de « vous » à « tu » — comment fonctionne-t-elle? est-ce qu’il y’a presque comme une promotion de l’amitié ? Devez-vous avoir une conversation à l’avance (comme que sommes-nous ?) ?