If there is one French peculiarity, it is the kiss! But the kiss is a very codified protocol and it is therefore very difficult to find your way around. Each region, each village even, has its own habits. Sometimes we start on the left, sometimes on the right, we do 1, 2, 3, or even 4 or 5 kisses.
The comedian Paul Taylor was not mistaken, kissing in France is complicated:
So fortunately, there is a website dedicated to introducing you to the "bisesque" customs of all corners of France. The site CombienDeBises.com will in fact allow you to fly over all the departments to find out the majority habits!
Let’s take the example of Sarthe, department 72!
In Sarthe, for example, 66% of voters kiss twice and 2% offer their right cheek first. So, if you go to Le Mans, you'd better kiss twice, starting with the right cheek!
Finally, if you click on a department, you will also be able to vote to indicate your kissing habits and thus improve the reliability of the website's results.
In short, CombienDeBises.com is a good joke that says a lot about the complexity of the uses of the kiss in France! To try if you travel a lot!
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Article updated on January 24, 2021 by Byothe
