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> The myth is tenacious [...] I love how the article starts! > In the café’s heyday Flore, regulars would say they were going “à Flore”, rather than “au Flore
by mrkgnao 10y ago
> The myth is tenacious [...]
I love how the article starts!
> In the café’s heyday Flore, regulars would say they were going “à Flore”, rather than “au Flore.”
Does that translate to "in the style of Flore"? Also, I suspect the first Flore is a typo -- or am I missing a pun of some sort?
- unexplodedgoat 10y agoIt rather suggests they're going to someone or something devoid of a definite article (going to Flore). "Aller au Flore" means "Going to the Flore", with the implied idea "going to the café de Flore" (this is the normal way of saying it for any café, restaurant...). So it indicates, for the speaker, that (the) Flore is more than a café.
- vidoc 10y agoThere's a footnote at the bottom that explains why it said 'a flore'.