Tuesday, September 02, 2008
La rentrée
La rentrée. While many of us use various religious and secular New Year time periods as stakes in the ground for reflection, life changing decisions and resolutions of one sort or another; the French have la rentrée in September.
It really is a concept that is aimed at the kids going back to school (unlike the back to school sales and specials in the US, UK and elsewhere—including France) but in true French fashion is philosophical and designed to provoke thought.
Your post reminds me of the great Kurt Weill and his "SEPTEMBER SONG", first made famous by Walter Huston (Co-star of Bogart in "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", directed by his son John Huston) and later picked up by Frank Sinatra: Oh, it's a long, long while from May to December But the days grow short when you reach September When the autumn weather turns the leaves to flame One hasn't got time for the waiting game
Posted by Jann on 2008-09-02 14:47:43
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