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Dvorak Oct 2017 11:06pm, 16 Oct 2017 14,401 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak It is odd that in the piece you linked to, Chris, the people have depicted hats, whereas, unless I have leapt straightaway into a heinous mistranslation, what is being described is a hideously overwrought hairdo with many elements interwoven? A quick search suggests this could have been a revival of pre-revolutionary hairstyling, which had (not least on grounds of aristocratic self-preservation) fallen out of fashion decades before. In the manner of some styles depicted downpage here thehistoryofthehairsworld.com but indeed, more so. I think I have a copy of Madame Bovary somewhere (in English) which I never got very far with. Without context, I am reading it that the author's intent is to portray the person described in foolishly misguided exhibitionism, whose attempt at ostentatious sophistication instead marks them out as shallow vulgarian?
ChrisHB Oct 2017 11:13pm, 16 Oct 2017 15,497 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB It must be a hat as the context is that all the rest of the boys divested themselves of their caps by chucking them as they entered the room. As to your last sentence, ISIHAC.
ChrisHB Oct 2017 11:15pm, 16 Oct 2017 15,498 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB Come to think of it, I started reading Le Grand Meaulnes a few years ago and only got half-way through. That is a far easier book.
Dvorak Oct 2017 11:15pm, 16 Oct 2017 14,402 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak I think I have found a wrong tree and barked up it
ChrisHB Oct 2017 11:25pm, 16 Oct 2017 15,499 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB You need to write blogs in the vein of the sentence where you guess at the author's intention.
Dvorak Oct 2017 12:12am, 17 Oct 2017 14,403 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak If so, alas, my misguided attempts at ostentatious sophistication might instead mark me out as the shallow vulgarian .
Columba Oct 2017 10:15pm, 17 Oct 2017 13,982 posts	Quote Pin Columba The only novel I've ever read in French is La Peste. And I have also read it in English. And Camus' writing is reasonably clear and straightforward. I think I had a go at Le Rouge et le Noir too, but gave up.
NDWDave Oct 2017 10:21pm, 17 Oct 2017 4,950 posts	Quote Pin NDWDave The only novel I have read in French is barbapapa
LazyDaisy Oct 2017 7:15am, 18 Oct 2017 20,077 posts	Quote Pin LazyDaisy The first novel on the reading list when I started my French degree was Balzac's Pere Goriot. It very nearly made me give up the idea of doing French at all.
Eynsham Red Oct 2017 7:25am, 18 Oct 2017 2,055 posts	Quote Pin Eynsham Red I started reading a novel in French but was told off for not paying attention!