We have been very fortunate to have "one of France's favourite English sons" accept an invitation to come give a talk at the Chateau Lalinde on Friday 12 May!
"formidably droll with a touch of the wacko", and "Toujours aussi vrai, authentique, so British...Evidemment il faut le lire en version originale ! Les expressions sont parfois bilingues et cela n'en est que plus génial!" is the way his books are described!
Un Anglais a Paris, is a wonderfully warm and witty love letter to one of the world's great cities. Peter Mayle, author of A YEAR IN PROVENCE, writes in his Preface to this charming travel memoir: 'Michael Sadler was born in Lewes, a small town in the south of England. This was a geographical accident. He should have emerged from the womb in Paris, looking anxiously about him for a suitable place to have lunch.'
He may not have been born there, but Michael Sadler eventually found his spiritual home. AN ENGLISHMAN IN PARIS is his delightful account of his first year in the French capital, describing with alternate affection and bemusement such continental confusions as the etiquette of flower-buying, the role of cricket in French foreplay, and the dangers 'black butter' presents not just to one's cholesterol levels but also to dry-cleaning bills.
Knowing that however keen you might be to excel in such matters, it's easy to get it wrong abroad. South coast-born, (but temperamentally Parisian manqué), Sadler decided to spend a year in the city of Renoir and Debussy to steep himself in continental manners. Braving the terrifying French traffic, finding out what wine to buy at the Bon Marché, tackling a diner bourgeois, negotiating affairs of the heart, coming to terms with tripe, and a million other challenges peculiar to the French capital--all these became grist to Sadler's mill, and if he didn't crack all of them, we are the beneficiaries of his wise and witty advice on how not to make too much of an ass of yourself. Sadler points out that the best approach is a commixing of British cool and French gusto. As he risked his cholesterol levels with mouth-watering French cuisine and learnt how not to give offence (or how to give it, if necessary) and as he discovers how to belong in a city that is distrustful of incomers, the process is fascinating.
Beautifully observed and very funny, Un Anglais à Paris has delighted armchair travellers and Francophiles alike, as have Un anglais amoureux de la France, Un Anglais à la campagne, and his latest book Cabotin Vendredi 12 mai 19h00
Au Château Lalinde, 1 rue de Verdun, Lalinde.
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