Newsletter: Paris la Belle

Aurélie Drouard
Posted by Aurélie Drouard
on 17 July 2025
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Paris la Belle

This week, we’re wandering the streets of Paris, enjoying la douce vie parisienne🥐

And during your promenade along the Seine river, you might notice that Paris too has its own Statue de la Liberté! Indeed, the original New York icon was a gift from France to commemorate the friendship between the two countries, and in return, the USA sent France an 11.5 metres-tall replica that can be seen on a small man-made island on the river Seine, called Île aux Cygnes 😊

Alors, sans plus attendre, let’s jump onto le métro to get to all the typical French Kwiziq content we’ve selected for you! 🥖

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French author Jules Renard (1864-1910)

Jules Renard

To start this Parisian Newsletter, here’s a beautiful ode to Paris, doubled with a French play on words:

“Ajoutez deux lettres à Paris : c’est le paradis !”

(Add two letters to Paris: it’s paradise!)

Sous le ciel de Paris – Édith Piaf

Reading and Listening practice – B2 Level

drawing of edith piaf singing with the eiffel tower in the background

Who better than the legendary Parisian Édith Piaf to talk about her city? With the song “Sous le ciel de Paris”, she paints a romantic tableau of the Paris’s skies and inhabitants, tinged with all the melancholic hues of her powerful and inimitable voice.

So sing out your love for Paris with “Sous le ciel de Paris”:

Sous le ciel de Paris – Édith Piaf

Let’s fill in some blanks!

Town Vocabulary – A1 Level

Andre Citroen park in Paris

Dreaming of living la vie parisienne? Practise your common town places vocabulary with this Parisian fill-in-the-blank exercise:

Mon quartier parisien

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This week’s theme is Paris.

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Bonne semaine à tous et à jeudi prochain !

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Aurélie Drouard

Aurélie Drouard

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!

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17 July 2025 in French Newsletter