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There is a huge variety of idioms in Quebec that do not exist in France, such as fait que ("so"); en masse ("a lot"); s'en venir (for arriver and venir ici); ben là! or voyons donc! ("oh, come on!"), de même (for comme ça). Entire reference books have been written about idioms specific to Quebec. A handful of examples among many hundreds:
Collège Stanislas in Outremont in 1942. Collège Stanislas in Sainte-Foy and Collège Stanislas de Montréal Outremont, Quebec are two campuses of an exclusive [clarification needed] French language private education institution for boys and girls aged 4 to 18 years which is accredited by the Agency for French Education Abroad (part of the Ministry of Education of France).
A prune is a dried plum, most commonly from the European plum (Prunus domestica) tree. Not all plum species or varieties can be dried into prunes. [ 3 ] A prune is the firm-fleshed fruit (plum) of Prunus domestica varieties that have a high soluble solids content, and do not ferment during drying . [ 4 ]
Its main predecessor is the Montreal Catholic School Commission (Commission des écoles catholiques de Montréal or CÉCM) which was composed of both French and English Roman Catholic schools and had been in operation for over 150 years. [5] In January 2021, the Quebec government announced that it had ordered an inquiry into the CSSDM. [6]
Collège Français is a private French-language secondary school in Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. It was established in 1987. It followed a Collège Français primary school that opened in Longueuil in 1972, and a campus of the Collège Français secondary school in Montreal which opened in 1959.
Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf (French: [kɔlɛʒ ʒɑ̃ də bʁebœf]) is a subsidized private, previously Jesuit French-language educational institution offering secondary school and college-level instruction in Quebec. It was originally a boys' school, became partially mixed in 1968 and, since 2014, opened its doors fully to girls.
College Francais. Collège Français is a French-language private Secondary school founded in 1959 [1] and is located on Fairmount Avenue in the borough of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
In Quebec, the French language is of paramount importance. For example, the stop signs on the roads are written ARRÊT (which has the literal meaning of "stop" in French), even if other French-speaking countries, like France, use STOP. On a similar note, movies originally made in other languages than French (mostly movies originally made in ...