Stan Streason Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 ...after owning our property for a couple of years we managed to attend our first village Bastille Day party this year where I was informed by several women (including the wife of the Maire, so it must be true) that we are a 3 "greeting kisses" village.Is this decided village by village or is it regional? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 4 in the Sarthe (although my closer friends manage on just two!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breizh Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 It changes year by year/region by region/commune by commune. I gave up years ago bothering outside of our area, I try to read whether more are expect, but as a default they all get 2 bisous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 Watch what others are doing and then do the same. My biggest problem is which side they start with really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 [quote user="idun"]Watch what others are doing and then do the same. My biggest problem is which side they start with really. [/quote]Absolutely, and whichever side I start on, they are almost bound to start with the other side![+o(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 LOL and it is worst if the person opposite has a big nose, can end up with an unseemly clash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan Streason Posted September 30, 2011 Author Share Posted September 30, 2011 note to self - only kiss ladies with petite noses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyh4 Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 It vares by region / departement. Paris is 4Ardèche is 3Bouche du Rhône 2 As for the rest, I know not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 http://www.unecartedumonde.fr/2010/04/la-carte-de-france-du-nombre-de-bises/ There you go a map. This doesn't always work though as people move regions and some families do one way and others do another. Is the little white one the Ile de France, don't they bise there????? Five, that sounds excessive,................... if people want to get that cosy, maybe they should just get a room! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catalpa Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 When at a village "do", our 85-year-old neighbour (who has lived in this commune or the adjacent one since birth) greets some people with two kisses, some with 3 (including us) and others with 4. She knows what she's doing, most of the kissees seem to know what they're doing and we just watch the ritual, fascinated.Here it seems to be that both parties lead with the right cheek if it's going to be 2 or 4 kisses but with the left cheek if it's going to be 3. However, if you don't know in advance...[:-))]Plenty of French people say they get confused too, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachapapa Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 [quote user="idun"]http://www.unecartedumonde.fr/2010/04/la-carte-de-france-du-nombre-de-bises/ There you go a map. This doesn't always work though as people move regions and some families do one way and others do another. Is the little white one the Ile de France, don't they bise there????? Five, that sounds excessive,................... if people want to get that cosy, maybe they should just get a room![/quote]que un bisou 79and the white department on the seine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoddy Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 Idun's map correctly identifies the Dordogne as two although I do manage to get three from my neighbour when I first arrive each spring.Hoddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardian Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 Gard is 3 right. [blink] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 In general I would never greet someone especially for the first time with a kiss, for me that is reserved for when we tutoyer one another, the exception seems to be many clubs and associations where everyone seems to tutoyer and kiss from the first introduction, - word not used in the French sense [6]Being effectively blind in one eye I find it sefer to wait and see what cheek is presented to me first, I have made the occasional error always in front of a crowd of people, a friend from the diving club presented his wife to me, she either did a last minute change of direction or had a nervous tick as I managed to plant a smacker straight on her lips.My neighbours thankfully no ex wife was a real salope, someone in whoms company that I really felt uneasy, if it had been up to me, and in hindsight as the elder it should have been, I would never have tutoyered or greeted with a kiss, she always managed to brush her lips against mine and rub herself up againts me whilst in his company, if I saw her alone in town I would look the other way, after a while I realsied that many people would tutoyer him and vousvoyer her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 Chancer, I await the book, Tales of Picardie. You make it sound so fascinating there, in spite of the implications that there is a certain dullness too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWINKLE Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 3 for my friends from l'Herault. 2 in my village and Aude and Haute Garonne but 4 just a couple of miles down the road from me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frecossais Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 [quote user="idun"]LOL and it is worst if the person opposite has a big nose, can end up with an unseemly clash. [/quote]Or clashing glasses can be embarrassing, or funny depending on who you're kissing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardengirl Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 [quote user="Frecossais"][quote user="idun"]LOL and it is worst if the person opposite has a big nose, can end up with an unseemly clash. [/quote]Or clashing glasses can be embarrassing, or funny depending on who you're kissing.[/quote]Yes, lots of whipping off of specs before our 3 around here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 With glasses on? Just got to gerrem off really. Through the fog, one has to manage, so no specs please, or one risks having them bent out of shape and angled like Clark Kent's. Sorry CK, I mean the 'other' one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 I have never found a rule tied to place. Some women do it twice, some three, and some four...but in my case usually never.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillan Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 [quote user="NormanH"]I have never found a rule tied to place. Some women do it twice, some three, and some four...but in my case usually never..[/quote]It's cheek kissing Norm and tongues are definitely not involved, this might, coupled with the lecherous look, be where your going wrong. [;-)] [:-))] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 At my first soirée réveillon as it was approaching midnight I mentally prepared myself for some tongue action with the ladeeyz, or at the very least some passioanate kisses, I did indeed recieve a few but from les mecs, wet sloppy and with stubble [:P]Thank god most French men dont shake hands like they kiss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillan Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Our 'only lesbian in the village' has stubble, made me appreciate the necessity of shaving before greeting my female friends. [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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