How to say “beautiful” in French? Here’s the bizarre answer!
19th-century French poet Charles Baudelaire once wrote Le beau est toujours bizarre. (The beautiful is always bizarre). Although he wasn’t talking about the word beau itself, he might as well have been. Beau and its feminine form, belle are the French words for “beautiful” or, depending on the context, “handsome”. That seems pretty straightforward. But …