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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,

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and it was what actually got me interested in French literature in the first place.

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And then as I studied more and more French, I was able to read it in the original.

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And I think that's what I really like about studying foreign literature,

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is the fact that you're able to read it in the original and study it in the language in which it was written.

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And what I really love about flowback is he's just got such an amazing way of writing.

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He knows how to control the language and how to use each word in each sentence to really hone

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in on his descriptions and then extract such as the one about the cake in the French original.

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He uses this really, really long sentence and he sort of piles clause after clause of the clause on top,

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which mimics the piling on of the tiers of the cake.

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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.

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The tartan units have been ordered from a pastry cook and Ito, as he was new to the area,

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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.

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The base was a square of blue cardboard representing a temple with round its side porticos,

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colonnades and Stocco statuette to Nicias Spangle with gold paper stars.

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The main Tair consisted of a mediaeval castle made of sponge cake surrounded by tiny battlements of Angelica, almonds, raisins and orange sequins.

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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,

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the uprights of which were finished with real rosebuds in the place of Knob's.