I thought it would be fun to delve into some words that I had to look up during the reading of Paris Noire and I thought I'd share them with you too.
If you have any you'd like to contribute please do
I found most of these in Wikipedia and it just goes to show me how much I rely on it and I did miss it the day a few weeks ago when they went off-line to protest
Patois - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patois
Quadroon - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadroon
Pigalle - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigalle
The Africa Corps - when I searched for this I only found references to the Nazis, but here is an article I found about all the Blacks fighting in WW2
http://kathmanduk2.wordpress.com/2010/06/21/yes-there-were-black-soldiers-in-the-liberation-of-franc...
