French culture

[Phlegmak]

So, the French are very wary of losing their culture. The French think their culture is great. So what exactly is French culture?

 

[brennan]

Being loud and indignant, burning trucks full of sheep and going on strike.

Edit: I can't believe I forgot 'surrendering'.

 

[Perfection]

Crème fraîche

 

[Love]

Jay another france thread!

 

[RedRalph]

Beautiful food, philosophy, cinema, Jo le taxi, 'allo 'allo, guys dressed as robots making dance music, the possibly best art gallery in the world, etc...

 

[Masquerouge]

So, the French are very wary of losing their culture. The French think their culture is great. So what exactly is French culture?

Is it a trick question?

 

[Phlegmak]

Is it a trick question?

No, not a trick question.

 

[bathsheba666]

............ So what exactly is .......... culture?

If you have to ask.......

 

[Phlegmak]

If you have to ask.......

I must, I must!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4YLuv0k4jk

 

[Mr. Dictator]

really really really good electro-house.

 

[Fifty]

If its philosophy is any indicator, French culture died about 100yrs ago.

 

[ArneHD]

If its philosophy is any indicator, French culture died about 100yrs ago.

Could you elaborate?

 

[Leonel]

I must, I must!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4YLuv0k4jk

Hehe I just got that movie the other day.

 

[Fifty]

Could you elaborate?

Mainly just that most of the famous French "philosophers" of the 20th century (Derrida, Lycan, Deleuze, Lyotard, etc., etc.) were frauds and charlatans, concerned more with deliberate obfuscation and fake profundity than with saying anything that was actually meaningful. Thankfully, the tradition of the good French philosophers (e.g. Descartes) is alive and well, just not in France, which has largely been a disgrace to its traditions.

 

[Rossiya]

I think French culture is still there.

"Italians are French in a good mood" - Jean Cocteau

 

[Fifty]

All the various 20th-21st century visual art from France, at least most of what I've seen, tends to be horrible too.

I'd say that the strongest thing about French culture today is the excellent food.

 

[jessiecat]

All the various 20th-21st century visual art from France, at least most of what I've seen, tends to be horrible too.

I'd say that the strongest thing about French culture today is the excellent food.

You can thank the French monarchy 500 years ago who recruited Italian
chefs to teach them how to cook.

 

[Rossiya]

You can thank the French monarchy 500 years ago who recruited Italian
chefs to teach them how to cook.

If that's true I'm very happy.

 

[Fifty]

You can thank the French monarchy 500 years ago who recruited Italian
chefs to teach them how to cook.

Really? I had always heard that with regard to the marvelous sauces that France is famous for, they were developed because the meat they used was so often rotten (before refrigeration developed) and instead of developping cured meats more like the Italians (to prevent the meat from rotting) they just developed really really really good sauces so that the rotten meat wouldn't bother them as much.

I have no idea if that is accurate.

 

[Evie]

Well, I don't know about the France vs Italy thing, but I do know that seasoning - of all sort - was in fact primarily used to cover up rottenness.