An English author’s views about the French language – Peter Mayle in Toujours Provence* (Part 1)

We are constantly being told that French is a supremely logical language. I think that is a myth, invented by the French to bewilder foreigners. Where is the logic, for instance, in the genders given to proper names and nouns? Why is the Rhône masculine and the Durance feminine? They are both rivers, and if […]

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