Like nomads who go from oasis to oasis in search of new pastures, words travel from language to language, settling in their practices. They rarely miss the rendezvous with the languages they encounter, acclimatize to them and adopt their turns of phrase, which does not prevent them from making their original sound heard. Words travel without visas or passports, carried by the winds and men, both storytellers and scribes. Words love associations that give them new colors. They thus bring out from their hearts these images that we call "expressions". The particular and remarkable identity of the expressions they found gives them a particular value. Ancestral and everyday, they can be considered as bards around which the memory of peoples gathers. If grammarians attribute to them the quality of legitimate children of idioms, it is because these words associated with customs have succeeded in their integration. With this book, I invite you, in these times of global upheaval, to live like a rooster in the land of Molière, like God in France in the land of Goethe and like on the breast of Christ in the land of Dostoyevsky... The author Natalia Gigounova-Komarova is a professor, philologist, writer, and doctor in sociology. Knight in the Order of Academic Palms, she is also president of the association Plateforme de Perspective du Développement International. A French woman of letters of Russian origin, with her experience as a translator, foreign language teacher and Russian as a foreign language, Natalia is a specialist in the socio-cultural, intercultural and transnational fields. She works to share her knowledge and her many skills from the perspective of her particular and singular vision, specific to her life. Format: 130x200 Number of pages: 61 ISBN 979-1093328-11-9 Éditions NATANIA