Xavier Mauduit, Laure de Chantal: askip, is French grammar sexy?

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Laure de Chantal and Xavier Mauduit.

© Julien FALSIMAGNE

By: Pascal Paradou

30 mins

Conjunctions of coordination, concordance of tenses, errors of connections: French grammar is full of difficulties but also of treasures.

What if our grammar was sexier than you think?

Xavier Mauduit and Laure de Chantal deliver us a playful work, a beautiful tribute to the language of Molière. 

Publicity

Guests:

Xavier Mauduit

 is a historian, producer of the program

Le cours de l'histoire

on France Culture. 

And

Laure de Chantal

.

They have just published: 

“Our grammar is sexy”, published by Stock.

And

Lucie Bouteloup's

column

“La puce à l'oreille”

which deciphers French popular expressions.

"Under good auspices".  

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