Ask for a stereotypical view of the French and words like chirpy, sunny or cheerful don't often come up. Of course there are variations for the time of day - bonsoir and bonne nuit, but there also exist bonne journée, bonne matinée, bonne après-midi and bonne soirée. These are not greetings as such, they are ways of telling people to have a good day/a good afternoon/a good evening. Likewise if you're buying cinema tickets it's likely the vendor will say to you bon film - enjoy the film. And that's just a tiny sample of the words that regularly have a 'good' appended to them in France, so really life is good in France.

Source: The Local October 28, 2019 15:22 UTC