"Dissolution de l'Assemblée nationale : c'est quoi la suite ?" has been shared to the blog from the French reading practice section of the learning library where you can find a large selection of interactive texts to help you with your reading skills.
For the first time since Jacques Chirac in 1997, a French president, Emmanuel Macron, has decided to dissolve the National Assembly. But what happens exactly during a dissolution? Learn about the implications of this key moment in French democracy in the short video below!
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Aurélie is our resident French Expert. She has created most of the wonderful content you see on the site and is usually the person answering your tricky help questions. She comes from a small village near Chartres in Central France, country of cereal fields and not much else. She left (in a hurry) to study English at the world-famous Sorbonne in Paris, before leaving France in 2007 to experience the “London lifestyle” - and never looked back! She's worked as a professional French teacher, translator and linguist in the UK since. She loves to share her love of languages and is a self-professed cinema and literature geek!