The Story of French - Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie Barlow - Google Books

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Why does everything sound better if it's said in French? That fascination is at the heart of The Story of French, the first history of one of the most beautiful languages in the world that was, at one time, the pre-eminent language of literature, science…