French Etiquette You NEED to Know Before Visiting Paris 🇫🇷 (Don’t Be That Tourist!)

Yes, please make a video about dressing. In a few months I'm going to Paris for the first time and I'm a little insecure about my style choices.

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Merci pour parlez en francais et à la prochain temps en anglais

Dear Gabrielle,
I just subscribed. Planning a Paris trip, with Lyon, Versailles, Marseille, Provence in the late fall.

Thank you very much for all the tips ..for you are very helpful…as I will be traveling to France next year and I have so much to learn…. most of what you say is common sense to show respect, but each country has their own little way of the way respect is showing…….and I appreciate the time you take to teach the French culture….merci Gabrielle…

I love your puppy 🩷😍🩷

I would love to hear more about French style (and how to not look like a tourist!) We're going to France for our honeymoon in September.

Je suis étonné que les anglais ou les américains ne pratiquent pas ces éléments de politesses basiques...

Your puppy looks so sweet. J'adore Paris & Lyon !

Merci pour cette vidéo très intéressante. J'aime beaucoup votre façon de parler deux langues en même temps. J'adorerais voir une de vos vidéos avec des conseils pour s'habiller comme une Parisienne.

Wish I had known about all this when I was in Paris so many many years ago. I thought the natives of Paris were cold and arrogant to be honest. I may have enjoyed myself way more had I listened to this talk back then! Thank you!

What you’re talking about is good manners. Too bad people have to be told but I guess they do. Great video!

For someone just learning French, it was very unhelpful to have you say phrases in French and then English and not have the French version in the captioning. I had to keep stopping asking AI for instance how do you order a café at the end of a meal along with an assortment of specific plates of desserts that the restaurant puts together in order to find out about café Groman, which is what you are obviously saying.

Very helpful basic expectations! Pls do make a video on tips for casual elegance dressing. Merci!

So easy to follow .......... Start a sentence in English and switch to French and maybe back to English and French again ............. Just like being with Friends in France. Great page Great Language.

It’s some good expression honestly thanks for your quality content

Everyone here is saying things like "good manners are universal" but I do not find that to be true. First, as Elle says over and over, manners are different everywhere. Second, tragically, when I was growing up in the US manners were taught and essential, but now, I see it almost never being taught to children. I have watched as children have run like wild apes around stores and restaurants while parents smiled and did nothing at all. I've watched kids pull things off shelves while parents did nothing even as employees were asking the kids to pick them up and the older kid responded, "That's your job!" Respect? Manners? Hardly. My Gen Z neice doesn't even understand what "respect your elders means." Even millenials will defy good manners and respect because they think they ARE being respectful to their own nautre. Blech! Watching this video reminds me of bygone days here in the US. I watched our Vice President stand on a stage and declare "You are a piece of S--t!" and then "They are all pieces of S--t!" In my day people would have passed out and then stoned him to death. The scariest part is the US has strongly influenced the western world in almost all areas. PLEASE do not continue to be influenced by us. The chronic low level (wifi) radiation and microplastics have infected all the brains in America and we must no longer be trusted to influence.

Unfortunately Paris became an unsafe city (migrants) amd some say shithole. A city i avoid at all costs (i'm from Switzerland).

Merci 😊

Yes please to the video on tips for dress in France.

Loved the video. Great job!

I have been to Paris five times and love the place. One big reason is the manners. I tell other Americans that France is a country of hospitality and politeness, so: Always bon jour/bon soir and au revoir, no matter what. Otherwise, you're a pig. Merci and merci boucoup. Everyone speaks English, but don't start in English or expect it. That's arrogant, and only pigs are arrogant. Instead, in a mildly humble way: "Desolee, je ne parl pas francais. Si vous plait, parlez vous anglais?" I have just given you my entire French vocabulary. Always works for me anyway. You don't have to know much French at all, but 5 or 6 words are essential and another 10 or 12 really help.

"Their country, their rules. If you want it to be just like home, then stay home." So ask, do not demand. Speak softly. And just because you're on vacation and thrilled, it doesn't mean they are. Tone it down. In a restaurant, cafe, or bistro, wait to be seated. In an outdoor produce stand, you don't touch the food. An attendant does that.

If it's a very small shop, you don't enter just to look around. That's what the window is for. You enter only to buy something. Even in larger shops, "I'm just looking" is delicate. If the attendant wants to show you things, once you've established English, you should show interest yet be clear that you're not there to buy just yet. Don't hog the sidewalk, and for God's sake, never eat or drink while walking around. Were you born in a barn?

I would be interested in your reaction to the following. In a restaurant or bistro, I will be asked what wine I want with dinner. My answer, only after I have established that English is okay: "I am an American. You are French. You will forget more about wine than I will ever know. Could you choose the wine, up to X euros?" Unless, of course, you know what you want. This especially works in those Michelin 1-star places where the house wine isn't the rot gut like in the U.S., but the opposite, carefully chosen and usually not too expensive.

About fashion. Come on Americans: Skip the baseball caps, the sweatpants, the shorts, the logo sweatshirts and T-shirts, the flip-flops or sneakers. Do you really need a backpack all the time? Do you think you're fooling anyone by wearing things with Canadian flags or logos, and why would you?

So on the fifth trip, I decided to take a risk and be outwardly American. I wore what I wear to a rodeo here in the States: denim jeans, a snap-button shirt, a cowboy hat, cowboy boots, a Carhartt jacket, and a closed-face belt buckle. In a fancier restaurant at night, I'd wear dress slacks, a dress jacket, a formal shirt, a better cowboy hat, my better cowboy boots, a string tie, and a silver buckle. Reactions were highly positive. What I learned on that trip was that the Parisians liked style, and it doesn't need to be expensive.

Dear French people.
Please learn to speak English
properly so tourists who come
to your beautiful country can
better communicate with the local people there.
English is the Universal language and not
French. Please remember this!!
Thank you!!

Allez au fromage madame, svp.

This explains alot thank u

Fabulous content, Gabrielle! 🎉

Merci! This is very helpful! Much of this is natural to me but there were some things that I did not know.

For some reasons, Chinese talk very loud. Many times I thought they were verbally fighting but then I found out they were only talking naturally.

Bonjour! Thank you for your insights. I would love to see a video on how to dress for Paris. Mercy beaucoup

I would like to see a video on style and fashion. merci

You are gracious and lovely! And keep alternating between French and English! So smooth and pleasing to hear. And YES, a style video would be very appreciated.
Mille mercis. 🙏🙏🙏

Very good video. Thank you.

Bonjour! Well I am doomed! I love the formalities for sure. BUT here in San Francisco we haven't had fashion or style since the 1980s and even then it was pretty weak. I and many many others, live in gym clothes, and yes if it's its warm out, flip flops
. Shorts and flip flops. jeans and hoodies. hoodies and tank tops and hoodies with shorts and that comfy T shirts you have from 8 years ago.
In San Francisco it's jeans and hoodies whether it's a drag show or the opera and everything in between. and when unsure just wear something black. I'm literally going to have to land in paris and and stand on fhe corner with sign that says " help me get dressed" 😂
No point in even packing a suitcase.
Maybe they have some kind of emergency clothes closet at CDG where the TSA wisks you away for a fitting and a standard issue khakis and scarf starter outfit.

Many thanks for this video and many thanks for speaking in both French and English. Watching from Ontario, Canada

Bonjour. Yes, I would love tips and hacks on how to dress more elegantly. Merci!

Unfortunately, my fiance is hard of hearing, so I have to speak loud so he can participate in the conversation. Most people don't notice his hearing aids (they are very discrete), so they just think we are being rude.

I just love your precious dog... so affectionate, and you can tell
has so much love for you!❤

What if their pronouns are not obvious? I am always so afraid to misgender someone in English and get even more nervous in French. Are there non-binary pronouns in French?

Please make the way to dress in France/Paris please/.love your presentation.

As a 30 year expat Parisian. 1) always say bonjour wait till they reply before anything. Then svp, merci. When calling the wait say svp not excusez moi. 2) if you need to argue smile, be polite, and be soft spoken. Shouting raising your voice will not help 3) be very conscious when speaking in public especially at restaurants and bars. Nothing worse is a loud mouth. Lower the volume. That took me awhile to do. 4) try to not dress like you do at home. It will not kill you to dress a little. No shorts, tee shirts baseball caps in restaurants. US tourists always think looking homeless means people think you are a millionaire. Trust me they dont. Millionaires dress up here.

Good manners are a portrait of your personality and character. Human interaction is paramount.

Waiting on the right side is true in large American cities too, but tourists from Peoria block the escalators by standing on the left.

Love your outfit. Where is it from ?

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS! We need the fashion video. PLEASE!!!!! Strategic packing tips would be AMAZING. And so are you....Bravo!

I'm going to fit in. RBF is my natural facial position and my family raised me to be polite and respectful.

I am curious how many languages you speak other than French and English.

Bonjour :) If there was a line at a boulangerie, should i say "Bonjour" when I enter the store and then again to a staff when it is my turn to order? (I usually say it twice like this just to be sure lol)