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French Lessons: A Memoir
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Plot Summary of French Lessons: A Memoir
"The author's experience of falling in love with the French language, from boarding school in Suisse to Graduate work at Yale and the Sorbonne and her dissertation on a French collaborator with the nazis.
Her father was one of the lawyers prosecuting the Nuremburg war crimes trials. "

Judith Ghoneim, Resident Scholar



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Plot
Time/era of story - 1960's-1970's
Kids growing up/acting up? Yes
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Outside culture (society) - French
Ethnic/regional/gender life Yes

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - scholar
Age: - 20's-30's
Has magical powers? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Female
Age: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - scholar
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
Amount of dialog - little dialog
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