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C’est Ironique!

Urban Legends in France: The (Made-up) Myths of Parisian Popular Culture

Paris Is Flooded! With Misinformation!

June 8, 2016 | By David Jaggard | C'est Ironique!

In Paris this past week, the elephant in the room was the elevation in the river. After the rainiest May on record, the Seine rose to alarming heights, bursting its banks in many places. At the sight of all that … Read More

Jobs in Paris: Do You Have What it Takes to Be a Street Sweeper?

The Few, the Proud, The Rubber-Booted

May 25, 2016 | By David Jaggard | C'est Ironique!

One of the great things about being a writer – in fact, one of the best reasons for becoming a writer in the first place – is that when you get caught doing something weird or embarrassing you can always … Read More

Weird English Shop Signs, Part 16: Beyond the Périphérique, the Border, and All Reason

What Exactly Is This Supposed to Mean?

May 11, 2016 | By David Jaggard | C'est Ironique!

When I went to Brussels just two weeks after the horrific terrorist attacks, I saw it as an opportunity to get the answers to several weighty questions: Are the people of Brussels, like the people of Paris last year, showing … Read More

The Spaghetti Carbonara Scandal: 50 Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Right

Here’s Everything You Need To Make Carbonara*

April 25, 2016 | By David Jaggard | C'est Ironique!

Warning! I am about to venture into treacherous territory. If I can negotiate this topic all the way to the end of a 1,200-word article without triggering a barrage of indignant comments, it will be a miracle on par with … Read More

French Telephone Service: Most of the Folks on the Phone Are Phonies

Why Do We Even Have These Things Any More?

April 13, 2016 | By David Jaggard | C'est Ironique!

Here are six words that you don’t hear very often: I don’t have a cell phone. I know that this is tantamount these days to saying “I don’t have a life,” but it’s true. When I reveal this peculiar quirk … Read More

French Logic: When Life Imitates Irony

Ahh, the Pride of A Job Poorly Done...

March 29, 2016 | By David Jaggard | C'est Ironique!

When I first arrived in France in the early 1980s, I was a young, struggling, unknown writer and composer. Today, more than 30 years later, I can look back with satisfaction on the considerable progress that I’ve made in one … Read More

France Finally Bags the Plastic

Parisians, I Just Want to Say One Word to You...

March 9, 2016 | By David Jaggard | C'est Ironique!

I try. I really do. Every morning I promise myself that this will be the day that I finally kick the habit. I’m fine until lunch and can usually get through the afternoon without much trouble, but by the time … Read More

French Cheese: Confessions of a Casein Addict

Put That in Your Pipe and Smoke It!

March 2, 2016 | By David Jaggard | C'est Ironique!

All of us have our own passions and peeves — things we love and things we hate. Personally, I hate it when the ill-conceived suffix “oholic” (or its even-iller-conceived fraternal twin “aholic”) is used to contrive a word for the … Read More

Love Locks in Paris (Again!): The Fake Tradition that Refuses to Die

Some People Seem to Be Locked into a Pattern

January 25, 2016 | By David Jaggard | C'est Ironique!

Human cultural history is full of things that can never be killed. The phoenix, The Terminator, Peter Pan, the “Great Wall of China visible from space” story, the mildew behind my toilet… And here in Paris another (and, sadly, non-fictional) … Read More

Paris Shop Signs: From the Ridiculous to the Sublimely Ridiculous, Part 15

In French, It’s Pronounced “Knee Stings”

January 13, 2016 | By David Jaggard | C'est Ironique!

As we enter 2016, France’s future looks dark. The economy is struggling, unemployment is high, extremists of every stripe are finding wider audiences for their messages of hatred, and the historically unpopular government seems powerless to stop the endless spiral … Read More

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