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    Barry's Frenglish Folies

    By Barry A. Whittingham

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    Dreaming of moving to France ? Planning to spend a holiday there ? Are you a newly-landed expat ? Or would you simply love to know more about French history, customs and lifestyle? Barry’s Frenglish Folies contains more than 100 serious, humorous and seriously humorous articles on the English but, especially, the French. They’re based on the observations, experiences (and mistakes) of the split-identity and sometimes deranged ‘Frenglishman’ that, after more than 45 years of cohabitation, the author has now become.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarry A. Whittingham
    Release dateDec 24, 2016
    ISBN9791097201036
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    Barry A. Whittingham

    On graduating with a bachelor degree in French Language and Literature Barry stepped innocently into the world of work as a commercial supervisor for a large brewery. He quickly realized, however, that a career in beer wasn’t quite his cup of tea and went back to university to train as a French teacher. After two years teaching in a secondary school he successfully applied to spend a year as an English teacher in a lycée as part of an official exchange scheme. It proved such a fascinating experience that he decided to make France his permanent home. And he’s never looked back. Barry has now retired from the English teaching and translation business he set up more than 40 years ago and divides his time between golf, gardening, foreign travel, 19th century French, English and American fiction ... and, of course, creative writing. He lives a mainly contemplative life with his French partner, Renée, in the mountains of the Jura region of Eastern France.

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