ose

OSE
in french means DARE
(it was just on the pavement the number 350)

SPA

S.P.A.
Société Protectrice des Animaux the equivalent of  SPCA here .

The Stranger

Advertising at a bus stop for the iPad

french culture, the example French writer Albert Camus
"The Stranger"
in french The Stranger is: L'étranger

Pipe

Pipe in French can means, a pipe or in slang a BJ ...

Amour Toujours

Pensées positives
"positive thought"
Amour Toujours
"Always Love or Love Forever"

French cuisine

about French Cuisine,
you can find almost everything on this website, to become a French Chef or if you have some nostalgia for France.

http://www.frenchfeast.com

Gallery Drug

Gallery Drug
in french Drug, we spell it Drogue, means dope, drugs
here when you see drug written it can mean prescriptions, medicines
in french prescription we say "Ordonnance"

THE SMURFS

"The Smurfs"
in french "Les Schtroumpfs"
 "les Schtroumpfs" was created by PEYO, a belgium cartoonist in 1958
 the original name is Schtroumpfs but not Smurfs

The Little Prince

"On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur,
l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux"

"You can see clearly only with the heart...the essence cannot be seen with the eyes..."

Antoine de Saint Exupery

BAVETTE

in french bavette means also the flank steak, a beef steak cut from the abdominal muscles of the cow

trente- trois

"Dites 33"
"Say 33"
In France, when you are going to the doctor he can ask you to say thirty three, "trente- trois"
 he put his hands on your ribs cage and if he can feel twangs it's means you are in a good health!
now it became a witticism, the doctors have other ways to find if you are in a good shape.
Some 33 in the subway on the 6 Line, station 33rd street

 
 

Victor Hugo

a fashion shop on Madison Avenue, Victor Hugo not the same!
Victor Hugo one of the most important french writer, among others " Les Misérables"

I read also that there was an american sculptor, Victor Hugo (1948-1993)

Eglise Francaise a Manhattan

If you want to pray, to listen french, for francophone and francophile community
L'Eglise Francaise du Saint-Esprit is a french speaking church, prayers are in French
109 East 60th street between park Avenue and Lexington Avenue
L'eglise Francaise du Saint-Esprit means, the french church of Holy Spirit

ROUGE TOMATE

rouge tomate in french means red tomato

in New York it's a very elegant and classy restaurant
on 60 Street between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue

Dinner for Schmucks

"Dinner for Schmucks" is the american adaptation of the french movie
"Le dîner de cons" by Francis Veber, (1998)

Con in french means someone very stupid, originally it means the sex of the woman
(schmuck from the yiddish the sex of the man)

ON N'EST JAMAIS SI BIEN SERVI QUE PAR SOI-MÊME

"On n'est jamais si bien servi que par soi-même"
translation in english:
"If you want something done right do it yourself"

À BOIRE ET À MANGER

à boire et à manger, literally, to have to drink and to eat but

it's mean there are good things and bad ones in this"

the equivalence in english

"it's a bit of a curate's egg( il y a du bon et du mauvais)

QUÉSACO? (KÉSAKO)

Quésaco, Késako?
familiarly in french:
Qu'est-ce que c'est? What is-it?

STUPID

Smart has the plans,
l'intelligent a des projets,

Stupid has the stories
L'imbécile a les histoires

BE STUPID, SOYEZ BÊTE,
WE'RE WITH STUPID, NOUS SOMMES AVEC L'IDIOT

Windows at the fifth Avenue, at the corner of 54th street

PARIS

At Beaubourg last week,
( Pompidou Center )












I am again in New York!