Lexical and phraseological representation of the concept foolishness (on the materials of the French language)

The article is devoted to the analysis of the lexical and phraseological representation of the concept foolishness by the means of the French language in order to reveal common and specific features in their internal organization. The nature of paradigm relations between substantive pejorative phraseological units of the present concept and cast them into the system; identify the characteristics of phraseological units, characterizing the human intellect in French, depending on the type of text and its pragmatic features is define.