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Old 4th April 2021, 23:43
Rabe Anton Rabe Anton is offline
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Re: Dividing "Villacoublay"

Sur Villacoublay—

Thank you all, each and every one, for your comments on the division of Villacoublay. As M. Ouidjat keenly observed, it's a "very good question," isn't it?

I had two years of French in high school (lycée), two more years in university, followed by a thèse using seventeenth century French sources, including hundreds of handwritten manuscripts. A pretty good education in French, yet it did not give me the insight needed for Villacoublay.

Tomorrow, Monday, 5 April, I shall phone up the cultural attaché at the embassy in Washington, D.C. I suspect that it will in turn consult l'Académie Française. When I receive an answer, I shall post it.

Meanwhile, thank you all so much yet again.

RA
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