French Letters

The French take their words so seriously, but French is a Romance language, and, after all, the language of romance. Consider the brouhaha caused by the first French translation of letters by the medieval lovers Heloise and Abelard. Scandal! Fakery! People take sides and hurl accusations like brioches in an upscale food fight. Oh, the horror of Google giving the future an Anglo-Saxon slant on history--it's causing the head of the French library apoplexy. I love the French. They take words seriously.

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