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    French culture places great importance on social norms and etiquette. Proper greetings involve kisses on the cheek. It is considered rude to snap fingers or only order one dish at a restaurant. Traditional French cuisine includes dishes like pot-au-feu, croissants, and crepes. Dress is also important in French culture, with fashion beginning in the early 18th century with custom designs for royalty and high society.

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    French culture places great importance on social norms and etiquette. Proper greetings involve kisses on the cheek. It is considered rude to snap fingers or only order one dish at a restaurant. Traditional French cuisine includes dishes like pot-au-feu, croissants, and crepes. Dress is also important in French culture, with fashion beginning in the early 18th century with custom designs for royalty and high society.

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    French culture places great importance on social norms and etiquette. Proper greetings involve kisses on the cheek. It is considered rude to snap fingers or only order one dish at a restaurant. Traditional French cuisine includes dishes like pot-au-feu, croissants, and crepes. Dress is also important in French culture, with fashion beginning in the early 18th century with custom designs for royalty and high society.

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    FRENCH CULTURE

    LANGUAGE NORMS

    To understand how French came to be, we have to go


    back two millennia to the age of the Roman Empire. As far as social norms in France go, the most
    When the Gallic War ended (between 58 BCE and 51 important you should know is how to greet
    BCE), territories located south of the Rhine became French people. The French have a lot of
    Roman provinces. This change led to the emergence of
    different ways to say hello, so it’s not easy to
    population centers and increased trade, which improved
    communication between the Gauls and the Romans. For navigate between the customs. Bises/kisses on
    five centuries, oral Latin, also called Vulgar (from the cheek: The traditional kisses on the cheek is
    vulgus, meaning “the people”), coexisted with Gaulish, a a very important greeting in France.
    language of Celtic origin.

    TABOOS FOOD
    Use the words Madame (for females), The National Dish of France is Pot-au-
    Mademoiselle (for young females), and Feu and is a classic comfort dish
    Monsieur (for males) to address a person. prepared using stewed meats and
    vegetables.
    Snapping your fingers is considered offensive.
    A Croissant is a buttery, flaky, Austrian
    viennoiserie pastry inspired by the shape
    Do not order one dish only when you're dining
    of the Austrian kipferl but using the
    in a restaurant. French yeast-leavened laminated dough.

    Always dress well when stepping out in public. A crêpe is a very thin type of pancake.
    It would help if you don't dress up like a fashion Crêpes are usually one of two varieties:
    terrorist. sweet crêpes or savoury galettes which
    are very famous in France.

    MORES DRESS
    While a lot of foreigners imagine
    Bises/kisses on the cheek are traditional
    striped shirts, a knotted scarf and
    in how people greet each other
    berets as a "traditional" French outfit,
    the reality is as varied as any other
    While bringing a bottle of wine to a French
    Western culture. Although regional
    dinner party is polite but not in France
    clothing (like the headdress and
    because hosts may think that you judge
    embroidered dress of the Alsace
    their hosting or wine serving abilities.
    region) is no more, fash High fashion
    They could think that you’re bringing a
    began in 1715, when ladies from the
    wine to drink for yourself because the
    court gathered a group of tailors and
    wine your host chose won’t suit you.
    designers, and plotted out new,
    custom-made fashions on the spot.
    The French Tradition of Getting Slapped in Voilá: couture (garments made for a
    the Face with a Fish specific person) was createdion
    remains a tradition.

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