Schweinfurt, Germany, December 25, 1946. This is the UNRRA administrator with whom my paternal Grandmother, Tatjana, organized the cultural exhibit. The woman wrote her Christmas greeting in French, of course. Recall Tatjana thought every cultured person should be fluent in French. That wasn't an idea she picked up in the DP camp; it was a belief that sprang from her upbringing as a Russian aristocrat.
2 comments:
Tatjana was very typical of her time.
I remember how Andrew Jackson and Benjamin Franklin won over skeptics with their command of French.
Yes; during some monarchies, members of the Russian court spoke Fnch among themselves.
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