[GMMAC]

Presumably, the Parisian French are pretty careful about what they say as, who knows when they may be surrendering to the whomever's on the other end of any conversation.

Seriously though,"Tabernac" and other blasphemies are more socially shocking & unacceptable in French Quebec because it's only a couple of generations removed from being among the most universally devoutly Catholic societies anywhere.
France, on the other hand, has been largely irreligious since it's Revolution in the 1790's and most certainly so since the Paris Commune of 1870.

[ferri]

i have to admit when i went to live in Quebec with hubby i was shocked when we went to a pet store and the young guy that waited on us said 'fock' every other word (didn't help that he rubbed himself uh hum at the same time) we never could remember this guys name so you can guess what we called him. he said fock very loud in the crowded little store and i was the only one that flinched. LOL i felt really ripped off when the movie "Meet the Fockers" came out. :(

[Twinkie]

France rather roughly invited my Maupin ancestors (Huguenots) to vacate that country quite a long time ago; and that's in part, why I'm in this country today; still able to cast a vote or two against the Clinton Dynasty and any Democrat on the horizon, God willing.