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rentrée

n.f.

[ʁɑ̃.tʁe] rahn-TRAY

the September return to school, work and real life

La rentrée, déjà ? Je veux encore être en vacances !Back to school already? I still want to be on holiday!
La rentrée scolaire est fixée au premier septembre.The school year starts on the first of September.
Related words
  • cartable — school satchel
  • vacances — the holidays
  • rentrée littéraire — autumn book season

France collectively restarts in early September: new notebooks, new resolutions, even a rentrée littéraire when hundreds of novels appear at once. It is January’s ambitious cousin.

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