When learning French, one of the hardest things to do is to understand jokes - which are often layered in cultural references or complicated wordplay. It's common for new arrivals in France - and ...

English-speakers have spent decades deriding French humour, but are the French truly not funny? Or are their jokes just hard for foreigners to understand? The French are known for many things - from ...

The French humor magazine, Charlie Hebdo, published cartoons ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad on Wednesday, an act that comes in the wake of violence fueled by the American made video depicting him in ...

France is known around the world for its food, culture and quality of life but not so much for its sense of humour, which can often leave foreigners nonplussed. How much of that is due to jokes being ...

French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo has published a comic biography book for Muslim prophet Mohammed. This is only the first of a multiple part series, reported world agencies Wednesday.

‘But then how do you translate it?' ‘Well, I can't. We in France don't have a word for it.' This scene in the film “Ridicule”, by Patrice Leconte, shows a marquis at the court of Louis XVI in ...