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Damn. My French is pretty solid, and used to be good enough to do well in masters-level French literature classes at a French university in France, back when I
by hoistbypetard 2y ago
Damn. My French is pretty solid, and used to be good enough to do well in masters-level French literature classes at a French university in France, back when I was studying that kind of thing on a full-time basis. (I’m a native speaker of American English.)
I’d have incorrectly spelled it with the N when speaking English. When speaking French, the word restaurateur, in my experience, has generally referred to someone who restores things like artworks or buildings. When referring to someone who owns a restaurant, we’d have *always* said propriétaire.
- cocoto 2y agoNo, restaurateur is often used here in France, simply for someone owning a business and working in “restauration”. When using restaurateur instead of propriétaire we are emphasizing the work, because someone can be the owner without actually managing/working in it.
- forty 2y agoYeah I never heard "le propriétaire" especially used for a restaurant owners. Personally this is the first definition that come to my mind when seeing the word restaurateur, before artwork/building restaurateurs.
- hoistbypetard 2y agoI suppose I'm showing my age, or the biases of the space I lived/worked in, then!