French I
Madame Lowery was the first French person we had ever known, though she wasn’t from France. As she haughtily told us the first day of class, she’d been adopted by the French while an exchange student, something that high schoolers in Wisconsin, unlike in the hinterlands of Carolina, had an opportun...
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2021
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | Madame Lowery was the first French person we had ever known, though she wasn’t from France. As she haughtily told us the first day of class, she’d been adopted by the French while an exchange student, something that high schoolers in Wisconsin, unlike in the hinterlands of Carolina, had an opportunity to do. “Because of my Gallic sensibility and my impeccable command of their language, the host family concluded my soul was French,” Madame Lowery announced, “and they are correct, which is why... |
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