Re: Left and right; what does it mean?
I always thought it was because the "free-thinkers" in Paris congregated in the "Left Bank" (La Rive Gauche, also the origin of the term "gauche" - tactless or lacking in social graces [and also "adroit" - dextrous or ingenious - from La Rive Droit, the Right Bank, where workers/craftsmen gathered]) of the Seine... or am I all wet?