I happen to have been born a Cartesian. The French education is based on a sequence of strict logic. You carry it with you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.
You know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far.
I ought to at least be able to read literature in French. I went to an enlightened grade school that started us on French in fifth grade, which meant that by the time I graduated high school I had been at it for eight years.
To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.
I'd had a French education for three years, my father being in the army. From 9 to 12, I went to French school. I've been sort of part of the culture, part of the geography, since I was quite young - the imprint was there.
English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.
I was born in Paris, and my mother was a French teacher, but then I rebelled against my upbringing and studied Spanish in school. So now I just speak bad French and bad Spanish.
After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.