J’ai appris deux nouveaux mots

My elder son is coming for a few days later this month and wants to drive our car.

I rang the insurers to get him added to the policy and the agent was talking to me about la franchise. I worked out that that is the word for the excess.

Then I went to a bookshop and was looking for the last book in the excellent trilogy of crime novels set in Marseille by Jean-Claude Izzo.

The section of bookshops where you find crime fiction is called polar (m) – crime fiction.

Unfortunately, they didn’t have the book I was looking for