The French humor magazine, Charlie Hebdo, published cartoons ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad on Wednesday, an act that comes in the wake of violence fueled by the American made video depicting him in ...

Americans can't take a joke, according to a French government warning we shall take ridiculously seriously. Thanks to Bloomberg Business' Gregory Viscusi we now have a working knowledge of some of the ...

THE BEST CARTOONS FROM FRANCE (120 pp.) — Collected by Edna Bennett —Simon & Schuster ($2.95). THE TATTOOED SAILOR (115 pp.)—André François—Knopf ($2.95). French humor prides itself on its elegantly ...

Roger "Federer" has now entered the French language. "Federer" in French is pronounced Federay, much like Aller is pronounced Allay. "Federer" in French is a verb that can be conjugated. It means to ...

‘But then how do you translate it?' ‘Well, I can't. We in France don't have a word for it.' This scene in the film “Ridicule”, by Patrice Leconte, shows a marquis at the court of Louis XVI in ...