la Suisse à l'heure française

15:08 Feb 4, 2013 

Do not worry Sheila
Have a good week! Kind regards
Ségolène

09:38 Feb 4, 2013 

I've chosen the wrong answer! Points should have gone to Ségolène! I'll see if I can sort it out. And apologies to AllegroTrans - not a bad solution, but not the one I used. :)

08:56 Feb 1, 2013 

I don't think this is a concern really (that we might think we're talking about Suisse Romande here), because the full sentence is "Le Haut-Jura, la Suisse à l’heure française…" i.e. "la Suisse à l’heure française" is a metaphor to describe "le Haut-Jura" here (where I live as you know ;))! And as we ALL know (;-)), le Haut-Jura is part of the department of Jura (named after the Jura mountains) in the east of France. Having said all this, for someone not too familiar with this part of the world, I can understand why you've flagged this and in fact, to spice things up even further, there's another (unfortunate) confusion to watch out for in that case as there is also a Swiss canton called "Canton of Jura" (or Canton Jura)!! It is located in the northwestern part of Switzerland (in Suisse Romande) and it has nothing to do with the French department of Jura (and the Haut-Jura) of course! :-S :-)

01:33 Feb 1, 2013 

Even though the hotel is in France, saying "French" could make people think of French-speaking Switzerland (La Suisse romande).

21:06 Jan 30, 2013 

Switzerland (a little corner of), but at a French leisurely pace. That's what I was implying, albeit in a roundabout way!
But in any case, I think this is definitely a corner of Switzerland in France rather than the other way around.

20:59 Jan 30, 2013 

It's this hotel: http://www.hotelclublerisoux.com/ This French-owned hotel offers traditional/regional cusine, presumably French rather than Swiss. The only Swiss connections are the border (only 200m away, so it's almost in CH), the views into Swiss territory (which is no doubt identical), and the skiing/hiking routes which cross the border all along the Jura.

I'm inclined to agree with Mark in thinking that it's just a neat way of joining the two countries/cultures in one sentence.

19:47 Jan 30, 2013 

Is there any other obvious connection to Switzerland apart from the nearby border?

19:45 Jan 30, 2013 

The authors of such texts probably spend less time pondering the semantics of "l'heure française" than we do! They probably mean "you are in France, but it is more like Switzerland"

19:29 Jan 30, 2013 

If he hotel were owned by Swiss and have Swiss cuisine (ugh!) couldn't this be logical, or would it simply confirm your concern?

19:28 Jan 30, 2013 

if it's not breaching confidentiality for you, could you give us the link to the website so we can see the overall context?