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Almost french by sarah turnbull6/29/2023 ![]() French business letters are written in flowery prose, Turnbull tells us, and it is considered selfish to dress like a slob. She observes the natives’ pride in their heritage and their differences, especially from Anglo Saxons, and notes the media’s deference to politicians. ![]() ![]() Turnbull describes their two apartments, the first in a leafy suburb, the next in Sentier, the Parisian garment district, noisy but close to the city center. Soon she was in love not only with Frédéric but with Paris. She arrived somewhat apprehensive and speaking little French, but after a while found herself beginning to understand a society so different from direct, easygoing Australia. The Australian TV reporter had taken off a year to travel around Europe when Frédéric asked her to visit him in Paris. This is not an overly significant defect, because she delivers so much, and so intelligently, on the rest of her life there. Though Australian journalist Turnbull came to Paris-and stayed-because of love, she is remarkably reticent about her relationship with Frédéric, the French lawyer she first met in Bucharest in the early 1990s. ![]() Love and adjustment in a foreign climate. ![]()
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