Oh, to have un grain de beauté.

Teenaged girls and braces go hand in hand.

As I write, there are three thirteen year old girls in the kitchen discussing what colour braces they should get. In a couple of years they will all have perfect teeth as the braces will rectify their goofy and gappy teeth. However, there is a girl in Iona's class that has quite a sizeable gap between her two front teeth but she refuses to wear a brace as these teeth are her 'dents du bonheur' (lucky teeth).

Another French expression which is far nicer than the English equivalent is for a mole (the one you find on your skin, not in the garden!). The French call these 'un grain de beauté.'

So, it is true the French language is a pretty language!