![]() ![]() Over there they eat frogs, ride scooters and have oodles of sex. I won’t say that France seemed as far away as the moon, but it was everything the English have traditionally packed into the word ‘foreign’. It’s hard to recover a sense of just how remote continental Europe was to an English schoolboy in 1969. ![]() ‘ Armstrong il dit: un petit pas pour moi, un grand pas pour l’humanité!’ Soon a shadowy figure in a spacesuit is taking weightless leaps across the surface of the moon, a scene entirely familiar to me from the Tintin book Explorers on the Moon. I am fourteen years old, on a school exchange, and helping to translate. In a small front room, amid the unfamiliar smells of Gauloise tobacco smoke and strong black coffee, I sit with my French host family staring at a small black-and-white television screen. ![]()
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