Today...

...no word, but:

• an explanation on yesterday's reference to La belle au bois dormant. As was pointed to me, "dormant", being a masculine form, cannot refer to the very feminine la belle. It is, indeed, the entire forest (le bois) that was asleep in Charles Perrault's original story (which you can read, in French, here)

• As some of us celebrate Halloween, an interesting read on the fairly recent adoption of Halloween in France (and why it hasn't been very successful)