social and historical context

Question 1

les allocations

feminine

Answer 1

benefits

Question 2

le baby boom

Answer 2

period marked by a greatly increased birth rate after WWII

Question 3

les banlieues

feminine

Answer 3

suburbs around large cities

Question 4

un banlieusard

Answer 4

someone living in the banlieues

Question 5

une bavure

Answer 5

police slip up

Question 6

un(e) beur(ette)

Answer 6

colloquial term for European-born people whose parents or grandparents are immigrants from North Africa

Question 7

un bidonville

Answer 7

shanty town

Question 8

un bouc émissaire

Answer 8

scapegoat

Question 9

le chômage

Answer 9

unemployment

Question 10

la cité

Answer 10

housing estate

Question 11

une cité-dortoir

Answer 11

dormitory estate

Question 12

un commissariat

Answer 12

police station

Question 13

une décennie

Answer 13

decade

Question 14

la délinquance

Answer 14

delinquency

Question 15

le délit de faciès

Answer 15

act by which someone is judged by their appearance and / or skin colour

Question 16

une émeute

Answer 16

a riot

Question 17

les Français de souche

Answer 17

native French people

Question 18

gagner du terrain

Answer 18

to spread

Question 19

les Grands Ensembles

Answer 19

large housing estates

Question 20

un habitat de fortune

Answer 20

a makeshift dwelling

Question 21

le HLM

Answer 21

low cost accommodation / social housing

Question 22

insalubre

Answer 22

squalid

Question 23

le Maghreb

Answer 23

area of North Africa comprising of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco

Question 24

les Maghrébins

Answer 24

people from the Maghreb countries

Question 25

la main-d'œuvre

Answer 25

workforce

Question 26

le malaise

Answer 26

social unrest

Question 27

une manifestation

Answer 27

demonstration / protest

Question 28

outre-mer

Answer 28

overseas

Question 29

les pieds-noirs

Answer 29

native French people who had emigrated to French Algeria in the 1800s and whose descendants had been living there ever since

Question 30

se plaindre de

Answer 30

to complain about

Question 31

la politique nataliste

Answer 31

government incentive to increase birth rate