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French with tears
Philip Hensher
6 August 2011
When the World Spoke French Marc Fumaroli, translated from the French by Richard Howard
NYRB Classics, pp.576, 11.99
The civilised world has always needed a lingua franca, through which educated people of international outlook can communicate with each other. For centuries that language was Latin, first the language… Read more
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