La main dans le sac

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Aurélie Drouard

Aurélie is our resident French Expert. She has created most of the wonderful content you see on the site and is usually the person answering your tricky help questions. She comes from a small village near Chartres in Central France, country of cereal fields and not much else. She left (in a hurry) to study English at the world-famous Sorbonne in Paris, before leaving France in 2007 to experience the “London lifestyle” - and never looked back! She's worked as a professional French teacher, translator and linguist in the UK since.  She loves to share her love of languages and is a self-professed cinema and literature geek!

Laura K Lawless

Laura is a French expert and KwizIQ editor. Online educator since '99 and published author, Laura is passionate about language, travel, and cooking. She's American by birth and a permanent ex-pat by choice - freelancing made it possible for her to travel extensively and live in several countries before settling permanently in Guadeloupe. Laura is the creator of Lawless French, Lawless Spanish, and several other websites and books on French, Spanish, Italian, English, and vegetarianism. She spends most of her spare time reading, playing with food, and enjoying water sports.

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This was really difficult with unusual idioms. I would have been stumped without the dual text.

Comme j'aime bien lire les romans de George Simenon, j'ai trouve la vocabulaire additionale tres utile. (Crime and justice vocab list). Par ceux qui aime bien lire les romans policiers, je vous recommend fortement ce ecrivain.

Great text and great job in respect of translation and references. Thank you so much for your efforts.

Merci beaucoup pour votre gentil message Shereen !

If you liked this text, have a look at "Histoires d'animaux" on the blog :)

À bientôt !

I only wish someone read this for us :)

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