Préfecture Prose and Cons

Mogette La 2CV Coquette was working at La Préfecture today.

Her propriétaire took this picture while her two cylinders ticked over on the pock-marked pavement; a memory of impromptu tyre fires, from générations of manifestations.

Embarrassingly, he'd left her in reverse gear.

Her centrifugal clutch engaged

And then-

Mogette crept, sans pilote, sans gêne,

Backwards, on a slight oblique

Towards the Préfet's Peugeot bleu métallique...

The chauffeur waved

And tipped his képi hat.

Only a Deuche can do a trick like that.

(Now click on the pic for a free subtitled French lesson, and a classic 2CV crash test.)

[Is that supposed

To be prose?

Leave the doggerel

To me, you mongerel

M.D'O]

Le Changement et Les Essuie-Glaces

A week after "Le Changement", Mogette is preparing for a trip across Le Channel, and the météo man told us to expect rain.

As usual, La Deux-Chevaux Coquette had the good grace to give her propriétaire plenty of time to prepare for the voyage: the windscreen wipers packed up on a sunny Vendée Tuesday as we drove out of the lavage auto in La Roche sur Yon...And the new Président braved the downpour and the lightning on his first day in office.

Resident poet Marcel D'Oggerel summed it all up in verse:

Photo: François, Jean-Marc et Le Changement (des essuie-glaces)

It started as post-électorale semaine tranquille

...And ended with the dépose of Mogette's steering wheel

...tableau de bord

...then speed-o-mètre

...knuckles: raw

Sacré bleu!

We must enlève the heater duct

Bicoz the moteur d'essuie-glaces is

...inopérationnel.

Merci Marcel.

Stay tuned for Mogette's meanderings in the land of mushy peas and diamond jubilees.