I was supposed to stay for 3 months. But I think I always knew I would stay a little longer, despite the crazy Frenchies. Or maybe because of them.

Kilmartin wrote a highly amusing and illuminating account of his experience as a Proust revisionist, which appeared in the first issue of Ben Sonnenberg’s quarterly Grand Street in the autumn of 1981. The essay opened...

… far be it from a French man to interfere with love.

The French doctor – the French, they are a very logical race and make good doctors – says: “M’sieu, they have all been on the wrong track – (“Jane Brown’s Body”)

What everyone agreed was not very nice, was the way Clémence had carried on. Obviously, she wasn’t the kind of girl you’d ask again: she’d ended up showing off everything she’d got, and she’d puked...

They have a very low rate for attempted murder and a high rate for successfully concluded murder. It seems that when a French person sets out to kill someone, they make a good job of...