France’s national linguistic watchdog, the Académie Française, has banned the official usage of a number of phrases borrowed from English to describe the world of gaming. Instead of “esports,” ...
On Thursday, the notoriously male-dominated Académie agreed that there was now “no obstacle in principle" in adapting the feminine equivalent of job titles, functions and professions. The change came ...
The Académie Française was established by Richelieu in 1635 to protect the French language so, when it sounds the alarm, the country pays it the sort of fond, indulgent respect one shows an aged ...
His lauded fiction satirized abuses of power in the continent, but as a high official for the Republic of Congo, he benefited from a much-criticized government. By Adam Nossiter When a French ...
A poet, critic and literature professor from Barnes in southwest London has become the first British-born writer to be elected to the elite Académie française, France's highest learned body charged ...
The Académie française, one of France’s oldest and most prestigious institutions, on Thursday formally invested a British citizen as one of its own. Clad in their signature black coats with bright ...
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