France
"It was fair commentary on what Frenchness means to a person who is not French and has to be subjected to Frenchness. It is not a put-down of the French. It is the facts. Now, I was able to ascertain from some interviews I did in France that the toilet that we're speaking of in the song is referred to in France as The Turkish Toilet. So, if it's a Turkish Toilet, then what's it doing in France? Cause that's all I know from French toilets is the thing with the bombsight and the two footprints where you pull the chain and if you're lucky it doesn't climb up to your ankles when the stuff comes up out of the hole. But all the stuff in that song is true including The Mystery BlowJob that happened to one of the guys in the band. You know, it started with this Green Fudge coming out of his wheeny, and he didn't realize that you could get this disease from sticking it in somebody's mouth. That was 'cause he was a chump. But it did happen in France so it belongs in the song." (Zappa about the song In France in The Frank Zappa Interview Picture Disk, pt.2)
Articles referencing France or French topics
- 70/07/25 Valbonne France
- 70/12/15 Paris France Palais Gaumont
- 79/03/19 Brest France Parc de Penfeld
- 82/06/03 Dijon France Palais des Sports
- 82/06/22 Metz France Le Parc des Expositions
- 88/04/09 Bourges France Le Stadium
- 88/05/18 Montpellier France Le Zenith
- 88/05/19 Grenoble France Le Summum
- 88/05/23 Strasbourg France Hall Tivoli
- French Revolution
- Claude Achille Debussy
- Edgar Varèse
- Maurice Ravel
- Olivier Messiaen
- Pierre Boulez
- Georges Bizet
- Robert Charlebois
- Gustave Flaubert
- Pierrejean Gaucher
- In France
- Canard Du Jour
- Packard Goose: "Beauty is a French phonetic corruption ..."
- A Little Green Rosetta: "For all of you French people who think that you’re outta-sight, and for the people in Spain who think the French people are where it’s at."
- St. Etienne
- Conehead: "She is from a small town in France"
- The Blue Light references Athos, Porthos and Aramis, the Three Musketeers: "Your ethos, pathos, Porthos and Aramis" (Source: Wikipedia:The Three Musketeers)
- Christophe Delbrouck
- Le Castor Astral
- Marcel Gotlib
- Jean-Luc Ponty
- Frank Zappa: 'Frenk! Frenk! Ees Aynsley playeeng?'
- Jean Solé
- Yves Tanguy
- Le Péril Jeune
- Dominique Chevalier
- Marie Antoinette
- Fulcanelli
- Économie Eskimo : le rêve de Zappa by Pacôme Thiellement
- Frank Zappa & les mères de l'invention, Tome 1 (1940-1972) by Christophe Delbrouck
- Frank Zappa & la dînette de chrome, Tome 2 (1972-1978) by Christophe Delbrouck
- Frank Zappa & l'Amérique parfaite, Tome 3 (1978-1993) by Christophe Delbrouck
- Frank Zappa, La Parade de l'Homme Wazoo by Guy Darol
- Frank Zappa, l'Amérique en déshabillé by Guy Darol
- One side fits all by Rémi Raemackers
- Zappa de Z à A by Guy Darol and Dominique Jeunot
- Zappa In France - 1968/1988 by Christian Rose & Philippe Thieyre
- Frank Zappa/One Size Fits All - Cosmogonie du Sofa by Guy Darol