Is Pierre Levy's Blog Written in English or French?

Both. Pierre Levy's Blog presents itself as "Various thoughts and papers in french and english," so you should expect a mix of French and English across the site rather than a single-language publication. The language depends on the individual post: the featured entry "Lire le présent" (25 August 2026) is written entirely in French, while other papers and notes are in English. The site does not indicate that posts are published in paired bilingual versions, so check each article's language before committing to reading it.

What the site itself says

The blog's title and description are the clearest signal:

That wording is a direct statement of scope: French and English content coexist on the same site. It is not a promise that every topic appears in both languages.

What the sample article shows

The homepage excerpt for "Lire le présent" is in French throughout. It opens with a reflection on how daily life is changing at a frightening pace, asking whether we still live in reality or in hyper-reality, what happens to truth, and whether the present reflected in networks has swallowed duration and temporal perspective. It then moves into a methodological discussion of three dangers facing the hermeneut, and a long-history framing of communication media — from the printing press and its five-century anthropological mutation (mathematical and experimental science, the industrial revolution, the nation-state, the privatization of religious transcendence) to the electrification of symbols beginning around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Two practical points follow from this:

• The French is substantive prose, not a summary or abstract, so French reading ability is needed to follow the argument.
• The post is attributed to "Pierre Lévy, Membre de la Société Royale du Canada," which fits the site's academic register.

How to decide whether the site is readable for you

Use these conditions rather than assuming a bilingual edition exists:

• If you read French: you can follow the main essays directly, including "Lire le présent."
• If you read only English: you can still use the site, but expect to skip or skim French entries. There is no stated per-post translation toggle.
• If you need a specific text in a specific language: check the article page itself first. The site description tells you both languages exist somewhere on the site, not which language a given paper uses.

Related sections worth knowing about

The navigation lists "About & license," "Free stuff online," and "Semantic computing with IEML." These are separate from the blog stream and may follow their own language patterns; the excerpt does not specify. If your goal is to read about IEML or to check licensing terms for reuse, go to those pages directly rather than inferring their language from the blog description.

Common sticking points

• Assuming the whole blog is bilingual per article. The description covers the site as a whole; individual posts are single-language in the evidence available.
• Treating the French title as a translation artifact. "Lire le présent" is the actual title of a French-language post, not an English post with a French headline.
• Expecting a language filter. Nothing in the provided page evidence describes a language switcher or filtered archive, so plan to identify language from the post itself.

For the broader question of what the blog covers, see the related explainer on the blog's topics; for what the site is overall, see the companion piece on Pierre Levy's Blog.