Day 3244 (Sunday) 26 th April 2026 This is Nice and this is Villefranche-sur-Mer. We had planned to have a petanque picnic today but when we got up it was cloudy and a bit cold so we postponed it for a few weeks and stayed at home. Coup: The French word that can mean a punch, true love, a one-night-stand and much more This word can fill up a whole page in the dictionary with its usage. Photo by Pisit Heng on Unsplash If you're listening to everyday French chat there is one four-letter word that pops up repeatedly, in a bewildering array of different meanings. If you look up coup in French dictionary Larousse you will learn that its primary definition is "rapid and brutal shock resulting from the movement of a body hitting another, and, in particular, shock given with a part of the body or with an instrument". As such it's usually translated into English as a knock, a punch or a blow. But a good dictionary will then list a dizzying array of phrases which featur...
