Showing posts with label French language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label French language. Show all posts

24 April 2009

Helpfully: one

For thirty years I have unfailingly lifted dark clouds by recalling a remark of Auden:
"English and German are the languages of heaven, and French is the language of hell, because the French people annoyed God in the first place by calling him Cher MaƮtre."