Today we invite you to get acquainted with an interesting French expression L’été indien.
Let’s see what this expression means.
The word L’été is translated as summer, and the word indien means Native American. And all together it translates as Indian summer. Could summer be Indian, French or African?
In fact, the expression L’été indien came to French from Canada, where I call a short period of time with good weather before the onset of cold weather Indian summer. In other words, L’été indien is an Indian summer!
Do you know what this time period is called in other languages?
So, in the Bulgarian language Indian summer is called the Gypsy summer, in Italian – the summer of St. Martin, in Spanish – the little summer of St. Miguel.