When in French: Love in a Second Language

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First published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2016

First published in the US by Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC in 2016

Copyright © Lauren Collins 2016

Cover illustration © Jessie Kanelos Weiner

Lettering © Christopher Brian King

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Excerpt from ‘FOR ME … FOR-MI-DA-BLE’ by Charles Aznavour, Jacques Plante,

Gene Lees © 1963 & 1974 Editions Charles Aznavour, Paris, France

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Source ISBN: 9780008100629

Ebook Edition © September 2016 ISBN: 9780008100605

Version: 2017-06-28

Dedication

For Olivier

Epigraph

You are the one for me, for me, for me, formidable

But how can you

See me, see me, see me, si minable

Je ferais mieux d’aller choisir mon vocabulaire

Pour te plaire

Dans la langue de Molière

—Charles Aznavour, “For Me, For-mi-da-ble”

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

One: THE PAST PERFECT – Le Plus-que-parfait

Two: THE IMPERFECT – L’Imparfait

Three: THE PAST – Le Passé composé

Four: THE PRESENT – Le Présent

Five: THE CONDITIONAL – Le Conditionnel

Six: THE SUBJUNCTIVE – Le Subjonctif

Seven: THE FUTURE – Le Futur

Acknowledgments

About the Publisher

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