No, this expression does not involve weeping cakes. Pleurer comme une madeleine – roughly pronounced pler-ay kohm oon mahd-eh-lenn - translates literally to “cry like a Madeleine” which means to sob ...

France's President Emmanuel Macron shares a laugh with Germany's former Chancellor Angela Merkel - they're probably not laughing about 'sacrebleu' but you never know. Photo by Ben STANSALL / AFP It's ...

There's a WHAT in my soup?? In honour of Francophone Week, here are perfect French expressions that will give English-speakers a headache France is going through the motions at the moment. Protests ...