Nice, let us see whether the pink… is a Essai of François Cavanna bearing on the French language published in 1989. Its title is the first towards Ode with Cassandre of Pierre de Ronsard.

The author defends there with passion his design of the French language by being based on various topics, all relating to the employment of French and his training: spelling reform, Anglicisms, orthography, poetry…

The tone is sometimes polemical, often coleric, but always funny.