Pardon My French
by Charles Timoney
Penguin, 233 pp., £8.99 2007
Even before France was France, outsiders have been traveling here and then writing about their experiences. Unintentionally and at a time when I had no interest in France, I read one of the earlier books in this genre: in Charles Joyce’s first year Latin class, seventh grade, our first text was from C. Iulius De Bello Gallico, Caesar’s Gallic Wars:
Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs
All Gaul is divided into three parts Continue Reading