what can we call French culture?
Clothing? Cooking? Parfums? Language?
2006-08-26 20:29:45 · 6 answers · asked by Helen from Greece 1 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
What you have touched on may be referred to "high culture" by which we often mean the artistic tastes of a society's educated elite - for instance in Paris, going to the Opera Nasionale de Paris, or to the Louvres Museum might be considered "cultural" activities.
Haute couture (French for 'high sewing' or 'high dressmaking') is sometimes used to refer exclusively to French fashion; more often, it refers to any unique stylish design made to order for wealthy and high-status clients.The term haute couture is protected by law and according to the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture based in Paris, France.
French art, literature, and history is perhaps the prevailing and most widely known culture in high-society Europe during the Napoleonic era - aristocrats, the famous and wealthy speak the language - the export of French culture also includes less tangible aspects such as attitudes, prejudices, folklore and so forth. In other words unconscious, or even conscious, mental habits are just as important as art and history in understanding what French culture is.
2006-08-26 21:01:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think French culture is more linked to art and areas around art - design, architecture, clothing, cuisine etc ...
also when you say France ... you immediately say Paris - this means art too, but also love and romance ...
and the south east hill areas, with the wine and castles and also French Riviera .. they are places of "bien-etre" "joie de vivre" and so on...
French are very rich in their heritage so it is impossible to just name one aspect as the most important ... I think their way of seeing life is the most relevant ...
2006-08-26 20:40:30 · answer #2 · answered by d_ruxandra 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of that. Just because they share it with some countries does not mean it is not french culture.
2006-08-26 20:35:14 · answer #3 · answered by Puppy Zwolle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
FJ (François Joseph) Gossec became a song and opera composer who worked in France in the time of the Revolution. He wrote the opera "Le triomphe de la République" in 1794 (nonetheless the Revolution).
2016-09-30 01:09:23 · answer #4 · answered by grumney 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-08-26 20:47:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-08-26 20:31:47 · answer #6 · answered by sllyjo 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋