In Competition No. 3245, you were asked to take a passage from a classic of French literature and recast it in Franglais.
This challenge invited you to engage in the parlour game popularised by the late Miles Kington, whose much-loved ‘Let’s Parler Franglais’ columns in Punch were described by Michael Bywater as a ‘macaronic jeu d’esprit’.
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