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A French Candian reader tells us, "Something about choupette. Here in Québec, we used the term Houppette from a tale by Perrault, " Riquet à la Houppe ". Choupette cannot be found in the Robert Dictionary. A good example of a houppe or houppette: TINTIN by Hergé has a houppe. Houppette is synonymous of 'Toupet'." A French Candian reader tells us, "Something about choupette. Here in
Québec, we used the term Houppette from a tale by Perrault, " Riquet à la Houppe ". Choupette cannot be found in the Robert Dictionary. A good example of a houppe or houppette: TINTIN by Hergé has a houppe. Houppette is synonymous of 'Toupet'." A French reader writes, "Our French Canadian reader is right, the real name is " choupette ", but in everyday speech and more in the children language we were saying choupette before the 1960s in France. Any way, is cuter to hear choupette than houpette. When I was little boy, I was using only choupette. It is alike , " maman" and " mamman" ( the French prononciation are different ). The word "mamman " is not found in the dictionary thought it is commonly used by French children. All the young children say "mamman " and not "maman". I have notice a lot of old french expressions that are not find in the dictionary. By chance my memory is rather good and I remember many such things. We can find again the sense of former French expression in the old magazines. This is one reason why they are precious. We have not noted a lot of Canadian boys with choupettes, but we note group portait of brothers with bangs and the baby of the family wearing a choupette in the early 20th century.
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