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
- 68/10/10 Paris France Olympia
- 70/07/25 Valbonne France
- 70/12/15 Paris France Palais Gaumont
- 74/09/26-27 Paris France Palais des Sports
- 74/10/03 Marseilles France Le Salle Vallier
- 79/03/19 Brest France Parc de Penfeld
- 82/05/29 Frejus France Les Arenes
- 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
- 88/05/20 Paris France Le Zenith
- 88/05/23 Strasbourg France Hall Tivoli
- Georges Bizet
- The Blue Light references Athos, Porthos and Aramis, the Three Musketeers: "Your ethos, pathos, Porthos and Aramis"
- Pierre Boulez
- Canard Du Jour
- Robert Charlebois
- Chana In De Bushwop "She went to France"
- Dominique Chevalier
- Church Chat: "There is no hell there is only France"
- Conehead: "She is from a small town in France"
- Claude Achille Debussy
- Christophe Delbrouck
- Économie Eskimo : le rêve de Zappa by Pacôme Thiellement
- Andy Emler
- Gustave Flaubert
- Frank Zappa: 'Frenk! Frenk! Ees Aynsley playeeng?'
- Frank Zappa/One Size Fits All - Cosmogonie du Sofa by Guy Darol
- 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
- French Revolution
- Pierrejean Gaucher
- Gotan Project
- Marcel Gotlib
- In France
- Le Castor Astral
- Legume
- 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."
- Live In Paris 1980
- Didier Lockwood
- Marie Antoinette
- Olivier Messiaen
- The Moving Gelatine Plates
- Muscateer
- One side fits all by Rémi Raemackers
- Packard Goose: "Beauty is a French phonetic corruption ..."
- Jean-Luc Ponty
- Maurice Ravel
- St. Etienne
- Jean Solé
- Yves Tanguy
- Teen-age Wind: "(Parents, parents . . . FRANCE . . . )"
- Edgard Varèse
- Zappa de Z à A by Guy Darol and Dominique Jeunot
- Zappa In France - 1968/1988 by Christian Rose & Philippe Thieyre