Plaster cast studies of hands at the Musée Rodin Meudon and Balzac's monk's cloak, below, is the spookiest A French Education will ever get, even on the eve of All Saints' Day--All Hallow Even-- Halloween, or as the French call it la veille de Toussaint.
qui donne la chair de poule: which gives goosebumps (literally which gives chicken skin)
sinistre: spooky
quelquechose qui fait froid dans le dos: something which makes the back cold (literally); spooky
On Halloween in France: The Vandal Had the French Touch, click here.
©2012 P.B. Lecron
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