Frenchy 1: "What's that building there?"
Frenchy 2: "It looks like the Madeleine [a church bearing similar architectural characteristics on the other side of the Seine]. Yea, I think it is the Madeleine."
Frenchy 3: "Yes, it is the Madeleine."
 |
| Ceci n'est pas la Madeleine... |
Hubby and I cracked up, but we were also crying inside. Here are 3 young French people walking past a building, that even if it were not marked "Assemblée Nationale" in big gold letters across the front, they should have been able to recognize it as the heart of their government's lawmaking function. I commented that it is sad that these three people have French nationality, when they don't even know certain things about their own government, yet I, and other immigrants, have to fight every day to prove that I am worthy of one day having French citizenship. I won't even go into the rocky relationship that Socialist Presidential candidate, François Hollande, has with the subjunctive. All I can say is someone needs to send him a copy of Les chevaliers du subjonctif stat.
