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SACRE Bleu! On Thursday a Briton was finally formally admitted into France’s top body charged with preserving the purity of the Gallic tongue.
Or so said Michael Edwards during his maiden address to the Academie Francaise, a hallowed body of 40 members known respectfully as “The Immortals.”
“By opening the doors of your illustrious establishment, you are welcoming in its heart someone who is worse than a foreigner: an Englishman,” said the 74-year-old literature professor from Barnes in southwest London.
“The British would also like to have an institution that defends the English language, especially from Americanisms,” he said.
“It’s an earthquake, a revolution, a Briton at the Academie,” joked French writer Frederic Vitoux as he welcomed Edwards.
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