The word indolent entered English in the 17th century, initially meaning “painless” or “causing no pain”. It came from the ...

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Although the concept of the nation was born during the French Revolution, the far right has claimed it since the end of the ...

Help your students expand their French vocabulary and strengthen their language skills with this engaging Synonymes et Antonymes resource! This grammar-focused activity set is designed to help ...

Student worksheet to enrich vocabulary for essay writing. Students have a bank of French connectives/phrases that they need to sort into different categories such as introduction words, conclusion ...

Mr. Stetler is a journalist who writes about French politics. PARIS — Like the rest of Europe, France is gripped by the war in Ukraine. Days from the first round of the presidential election here, the ...

Peter Mark Roget compiled his influential thesaurus late in life. Illustration by Lucille Clerc In January 1802, Peter Mark Roget was an ambivalent young medical school graduate with no clear path. He ...

You won’t find an existential crisis more maddening and mesmerizing than the one Yoav (Tom Mercier) is having in “Synonyms,” a drama from director Nadav Lapid that bristles with outrageous artistic ...

Yoav (Tom Mercier) is speed-walking down the rainy streets of Paris, past cafes and cars and people reading newspapers; he’s moving so fast that the camera can barely keep up with him. Once he finds ...

How much indulgence might you feel for a young man going through an existential identity crisis? “Synonyms,” the kinetic new drama from writer-director Nadav Lapid (the original “The Kindergarten ...

Israeli-French film “Synonyms” by director Nadav Lapid took home the top prize at the Berlin film festival — the country’s first ever Golden Bear. The absurdist, broadly autobiographical movie tells ...

One of the must-have gifts of the past holiday season here was the French version of a board game called Anti-Monopoly. It was billed as a virtual version of class warfare. Players don't accumulate ...