By Allen Johnson

To make a pal is a pleasure. To make a pal abroad is a wonderment—a small miracle. Pardon My French follows the lives of an American couple who've embraced a frightening venture: to not be spectators in France, yet to be absorbed through France.

Amidst the minefields of linguistic pretend pas, the perplexities of French gestures, the beautiful and sometimes unique food, and the attractiveness of Christmas at the Mediterranean—see what it truly is like for an sometimes gruff American to be followed right into a new kinfolk. Witness the cuddling, the teasing, and the laughter that follows, whilst not anything in the world should be extra excellent. event what it's wish to fall in love with the French.

Follow the adventures of the writer as he pits his fairly staid and traditional using abilities opposed to the French velocity demons of Languedoc. Step into his footwear as he exams his basketball prowess opposed to the younger French dollars decorated with backward ball caps and over-the-knee Chicago Bulls online game shorts. Watch how he frolics within the Mediterranean Sea for the 1st time with a French topless spouse. wonder as he sits in with a world-class French jazz band. notice him conquer his shyness in chatting with the attractive nude version from his portray classification within the studio atop the village police station. Envision how he learns to bounce the tango along with his head upright, his chest increased, and his strides befitting a newly embellished French god—one with sensuality on his brain.

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Or BRIENNE " State of the king's scholars eligible from their age those ' action the best qualified to judge. which belonged to : to enter into the service or to pass to the school at Paris ; to wit M. de Buonaparte (Napoleon), born the 15th of August, 1769, in height tfeet, 10 inches, 10 lines (5 feet 6 inches English ;) has finished Aw fourth season ; of a good constitution, health excellent; charac- FROM HIS BIRTH TO THE SIEGE OF TOULON. " professor of history at Paris, boasted, that in a of the different list had predicted his pupil's subsequent career.

Land, where we find him described in Boswell's Life of Johnson as mingling in the literary society of the day. But on hearing of this decree, he immediately quitted London for Paris, was presented to the Constituent Assembly by La Fayette, and was received in the French capital with all the honors which the love of liberty could pay On to one of its most devoted and heroic defend- he was every where was appointed lieutenantgeneral in the French service, and commandant of the twentyIn 1792 Napoleon oatained leave of abthird military division.

Now see their country united to the finest monarchy Europe, they would feel satisfied, and no longer regret the blood they had shed for her independence. By accepting the protection rights, could in of Louis, they would secure all the privileges of French subjects, and have the commerce of the ports of Europe thrown open to But these arguments and excuses had little effect the " We are inand their leaders were alike deaf to them. people " there let us remain, and vincible in our mountains," they said They talk of the advantages we should laugh at our enemies.

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