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Stir things up. Submit a French word. Let’s write a story

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"My torrid night with a Corsican fisherman" (photo of Elle magazine). It is time to stir things up on this blog. What better way than to write a sizzler! Ready? Your job is to submit a French word. My job is to weave a story with your terms (but not on your terms!).

On y va! Let's go! Scroll to the comments link at the end of this post and submit a French word. I will post our story in the next edition. Va-va-voom!

TODAY'S WORD: remuer les choses

        : stir things up, shake things up

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Le génie est l'aptitude de voir les choses invisibles, de remuer les choses intangibles, de peindre les choses qui n'ont pas de traits.
-Joseph Joubert / Pensées

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features.  – Joseph Joubert / Thoughts

 
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131 thoughts on “Stir things up. Submit a French word. Let’s write a story”

  4. This is in response to your ad , on the right side of this page , for the book ” Every Frenchman Has One ” , by Olivia de Havilland . A film , starring Olivia de Havilland , ” Snake Pit ” , is one of my earliest memories . I must have been one or two years old ; the film was made in 1948 . Of course , as a child , I remembered the song ” Going Home ” , with words put to Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 in E minor, “From the New World”, Op. 95, B. 178 . I also remember the woman singing it , a patient in a mental hospital . And I remember the camera pulling away from a room filled with mental patients , the scene being transformed into a picture of a pit of writhing snakes . The film , based on Mary Jane Ward’s 1946 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name , was at the vanguard of reforms in the mental institutions of the time .

  9. I highly recommend: Amour Provence by Constance Leisure. Simon and Shuster.
    My word today is ‘doudou’.
    Jos

  28. la violence, because I have a fascination for finding peace in a world of violence.

  32. kinesintherapeute
    I love how this sounds. Don’t blame you if you can’t work it in!

  37. My dad, who wanted to appear sophisticated, often said “Fermez la bouche” to us. I think it was the only French he knew!

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