Franquette (to the good) : loc. adv. Quite frankly.
Without ceremony, without ceremony.
Host a friend in the good franquette or a meal in the good franquette.
The expression “à la bonne franquette”: Without manners, simply.
This expression is very often associated with an invitation, when the host lets his guests know that he will not put the small dishes in the big ones.
In the middle of the XNUMXth century, it was said franquette, the current form did not appear until a century later.
The original meaning was "frankly", frank being a word derived from franc came from the Normandy and Picardy regions. This franchise has gradually transformed into simplicity to give the current meaning.
Claude Duneton adds that this expression could have appeared in opposition to that of the XNUMXth century, French-style, which meant "with great kindness and arrangement" and even "luxuriously".