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miraclemaya · 2 months

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this is problematic of me (joke) but i really enjoy the splashing of french into english speech or writing. just adds a pizzazz

#im fetishing the french language #i mean this is not a new thing and the reasons probably have to do with a long held idea of france being particularly enlightened #or whatever kinda racist shit but it does sound pleasant nonetheless

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artthatgivesmefeelings · 7 months

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William Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905) La Loyauté, 1876

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sissa-arrows · 10 months

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French people raised half a million. Half a fucking million for the family of the cop who murdered Nahel Merzouk, an Algerian boy.

Well we don’t know the value of an Algerian life in France but we sure now know the reward for killing one.

To all the French people who say France is not racist fuck you. To all the Europeans who pretend to be so much better than the US a huge fuck you. To all the people getting a hard on over France fuck you. To all the people who even think about mentioning how destroying public property is bad fuck you. Fuck everyone who is not revolted by what happened.

#france #france racism #police brutality #police violence #french racism #islamophobia #justice pour nahel

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thevvitchbitch · 1 month

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#video #free palestine #gaza #west bank #jerusalem #usa news #us politics #ceasefire now #france #palestine #palestine news #social justice #middle east #lgbtq #feminism #french

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theuselesshistoryweeb · 10 months

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when you are learning French, you start pronouncing things differently and it’s so hard to escape.

like bruh if only my brain would let me say croissant and ambiance englishly

#french #french france #the frenchiest French to ever French #it’s always a kwassont not a kruhssant

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fake-destiel-news · 1 month

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This was NOT on my 2024 bingo card

Here is what the museum had to say about it because it’s funnier than any news article

#Napoleon #france #napoleón bonaparte #Museum #french #coup attempt #fake-destiel-news #news #meme #destiel meme #unreality #this is fake news #Truth: this has not happened but wouldn’t it be so funny?

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illustratus · 9 months

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Joan of Arc wearing armour and mounted upon a horse at the head of her troops

by Jules Prater

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the-bibrarian · 1 year

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I see a lot of incomprehension online about our pension reform and the anger it generates in France, and what it often boils down to is "why are they so angry, 64 is plenty young to retire?"

I don't agree, but even if I did I would still oppose the reform. Here are some of the reasons why:

We already need 43 full years of work and tax contributions to be able to retire. Which means college-educated people were never going to retire at 64 anyway, let alone 62. This reform is aimed at people who start working early, mostly in low-paying jobs.

There's very little provision made in this law for hard/dangerous/manual labour.

There's no provision made for women who stop working to raise their children (51% of women already retire without a "complete career," which means they only retire on a partial pension, vs. 25% of men).

At 64, 1/3 of the poorest workers will already be dead. In France, between the richest and the poorest men, there's a 13 years gap in life expectancy.

Beyond life expectancy, at that age a lot of people (especially poorer, non-college educated) have too many health-related issues to be able to work. Not only is it cruel to ask them to work longer, if they can't work at all that's two more years to hold on with no pension

Unemployment in France is still fairly high (7%). Young people already have a hard time finding work, and this is going to make things even harder for them

Macron cut taxes on the rich and lost the country around 16 Billions € in tax revenue. Our estimated pension deficit should peak at 12 Billions worst case scenario.

While I'm on wealth redistribution (no, not soviet style, but I think there should be a cap on wealth concentration. Nobody needs to be a billionaire.): some of the massive profits of last year should go to workers and to the state to be redistributed, including to fund pensions. The state subsidized companies and corporations during the pandemic, Macron even said "no matter the cost" and spent 206 Billions € on businesses. Now he's going after the poorest workers in the country for an hypothetical 12 Billions??

Implicit in all of this is the question of systemic racism. French workers from immigrant families are already more likely to have started their careers early, to have low-paying jobs, are less likely to be college-educated, more at risk for disabilities and chronic illnesses, etc., so this is going to disproportionately affect them

This is not even touching on the fact that he didn't let lawmakers vote on it, meaning he knew he wouldn't get a majority of votes in parliament, or that 70% of the population is against this law. Pushing it through anyway is blatant authoritarianism.

TL;DR: This is only tangentially about retirement age. The reform will make life harder for people with low incomes, or with no higher education, for manual workers, for women—mothers especially, for POC, for people with disabilities or chronic conditions, etc. This is about solidarity.

Hope (sincerely) this helps.

#long post #france #french politics #réforme des retraites #49.3 #pension reform #macron explosion #I know this post is mostly me talking to myself and preaching to the choir #but I needed to get it off my chest #up the baguette #upthebaguette #social justice

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die-rosastrasse · 7 months

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Château de Versailles

Versailles, France, 27 VIII 2023

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empirearchives · 7 months

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Black empire style gown

Tulle and silk

C. 1800-1810, Napoleonic era

Centraal Museum, Utrecht

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happyheidi · 8 months

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𝖡𝖺𝗅𝖼𝗈𝗇𝗒. 𝖯𝗋𝗈𝗏𝖾𝗇𝖼𝖾, 𝖥𝗋𝖺𝗇𝖼𝖾 𝖻𝗒 𝗋𝗈𝖻𝖺𝟨𝟨

#the balcony of my french dreams !!#cottagecore #nature #naturecore #flowers #flowercore #warmcore #photography #balcony #france #overgrown #cozycore #cosycore #grandmacore #city #building #plants #greenery

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artthatgivesmefeelings · 5 months

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William Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825 - 1905) The abduction of Psyche, 1895

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sissa-arrows · 8 months

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Sooooo now if you’re North African or Black you cannot wear a long dress at school anymore which extend to public servants jobs.

France really said “Wait we need to remind everyone of our Islamophobia”.

Basically the Abaya has been declared to be a religious garnement and as such it is now not allowed to wear it in schools. Given that they cannot differentiate a abaya from a long dress (because there’s no fucking difference) they will have to pick when it’s a abaya and when it’s just a long dress… and as everyone can already see it they will pick by deciding that Arab, Amazigh, North African and Black girls are automatically wearing a abaya.

#fuck France #french islamophobia

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lionofchaeronea · 4 months

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