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All You Need to be Impossibly French
Helena Frith Powell
Helena Frith Powell is an English expatriate living with her family in France. Intrigued by the allure possessed by French women, she decides to investigate and discover the source of it. This book is the result of her research.
Not surprisingly, this book was an entertaining piece of fluff. We're all aware of the stereotype of a French woman: trés thin, trés chic, and un peu aloof; apparently this is pretty accurate, and not just in Paris. However, I was a bit surprised to learn how insecure and jealous so many of these women are. And despite being a big Francophile, I don't think I could ever live in a place where friendships between women are so rare and insubstantial.
But the book was most educational in unexpected ways. For example, I learned a sentence that I never heard in Sister Jamesella's French I class: Ca c'est les sex toys. I must confess that my first reaction was surprise that L'Academie Français allowed "les sex toys" to get by them. ;)
Helena Frith Powell
Helena Frith Powell is an English expatriate living with her family in France. Intrigued by the allure possessed by French women, she decides to investigate and discover the source of it. This book is the result of her research.
Not surprisingly, this book was an entertaining piece of fluff. We're all aware of the stereotype of a French woman: trés thin, trés chic, and un peu aloof; apparently this is pretty accurate, and not just in Paris. However, I was a bit surprised to learn how insecure and jealous so many of these women are. And despite being a big Francophile, I don't think I could ever live in a place where friendships between women are so rare and insubstantial.
But the book was most educational in unexpected ways. For example, I learned a sentence that I never heard in Sister Jamesella's French I class: Ca c'est les sex toys. I must confess that my first reaction was surprise that L'Academie Français allowed "les sex toys" to get by them. ;)
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