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French Golden Oldie

Alice Poon
Mar 26, 2013
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Jacques Prevert may perhaps be a lesser known name than

Charles Baudelaire, Stephane Mallarme or Paul Verlaine in the realm of French

poetry, nonetheless his name was first introduced to me when I was studying

French in my youth at L’Alliance Francaise. Ever since, one of his poems, “Barbara”, which was about the afflictions

brought on by war, has stuck in …

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