Hi, my name is Elena and I'm a French linguistics student in Oxford, Madame Bovary was actually a first French novel that I'd sort of ever read,
and it was what actually got me interested in French literature in the first place.
And then as I studied more and more French, I was able to read it in the original.
And I think that's what I really like about studying foreign literature,
is the fact that you're able to read it in the original and study it in the language in which it was written.
And what I really love about flowback is he's just got such an amazing way of writing.
He knows how to control the language and how to use each word in each sentence to really hone
in on his descriptions and then extract such as the one about the cake in the French original.
He uses this really, really long sentence and he sort of piles clause after clause of the clause on top,
which mimics the piling on of the tiers of the cake.
And so I think being able to read it in the original language when its authors such as Froebel think it's a really amazing thing to do.
The tartan units have been ordered from a pastry cook and Ito, as he was new to the area,
he'd gone to a great deal of trouble and he himself brought to the table the dessert stage, an elaborate confection which drew cries of admiration.
The base was a square of blue cardboard representing a temple with round its side porticos,
colonnades and Stocco statuette to Nicias Spangle with gold paper stars.
The main Tair consisted of a mediaeval castle made of sponge cake surrounded by tiny battlements of Angelica, almonds, raisins and orange sequins.
And finally, on the topmost layer, a green meadow with rocks, flakes of jam and hazelnut showboats a little cupid sat on a chocolate swing,
the uprights of which were finished with real rosebuds in the place of Knob's.