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Totems of Frenchness fill the modern interior, where the liqueurs are on display and the French press coffee is ready.

From Slate • Jul. 25, 2023

Referring to another message describing two of the film-makers as "weak and stupid", she said: "It's my Frenchness coming out sometimes."

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2023

They worry Callac will lose its Frenchness and will trade its small-town tranquillity for big-city problems.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2022

“Sempé embodies Frenchness, the ways he depicted Paris, France’s little villages and scenes of daily life,” and “a form of innocence and joy,” Gabs said at the funeral.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 20, 2022

Montreal with its swelling hill, its mighty river, its winter snow, its Frenchness, its opposing self-defensive, therefore self-assertive, Britishness, was very remote.

From Second String by Hope, Anthony