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'Le carnet rose' - the French way of announcing a new baby
There is also a 'carnet noir' and a 'carnet blanc'. We explain which life events these notices refer to
Translated literally le carnet rose means the pink newspaper notices.
Le carnet rose refers to the section of French newspapers that recent births would typically be reported in.
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This means anyone appearing in le carnet rose has recently become a parent.
Some publications even refer to a carnet rose for baby girls and a carnet bleu (blue notices) for baby boys.
And these are not the only carnets – there is also le carnet noir (black notices) for deaths, and le carnet blanc (white notices) for marriages.
Some English-language newspapers would group these under family announcements – but you might also hear the colloquial phrase ‘Hatched, matched and despatched’ for births, marriages and death notices used.
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