Baguette's typically have at least 4 hours dough rising/proving time, whereas typical "white sliced loaves" may only have an hour (start to finish). Baguettes are purely flour, yeast, water and salt (by law), wheras American bread has preservatives, emulsifiers etc... Baguettes are designed to be eaten within hours of being baked (they stale quickly; the French buy one daily), American bread lasts at least a week. Obviously, the shape is quite different.
ficelle is smaller
It is a style/shape of bread popular in France where depending on size it may be called a baguette, a flute or a ficelle.
The common French bread stick (about 50 centimeters long, weight 250 g) is called "une baguette" ("a stick")
they are completely different, from ingredients to the types of flour used.
la baguette (fem.) is the usual French name for a 250-grams, stick-like loaf of bread. You would call it French stick.
A baguette is french bread.
A baguette is a common type of bread that fits the description.
A bakery. A baguette is a loaf of bread.
baguette
The baguette.
La baguette (literally the stick) is a thin long loaf of bread.
A batard is a loaf of bread similar to a baguette, but shorter in length - between 6 and 12 inches.
A long stick of bread which is often known to be found in france