My Love Affair with the French: A Personal History

This is an informal biography about a young girl from rural Virginia who grew up under segregation and found astonishing and deep bonds with France and the French people. In her narrative one will find the nurturing of a strong family, the growth in a young girl’s heart for learning, later broad to fruition in advance studies; and her still ongoing attempt to absorb life in its joys and complexities and to give back, always give back, to her students and her community. Read this journey from Virginia’s dusty yards and frame house, to the halls of some of the finer institutes of higher learning, and catch the exhilaration of one heart growing in her family, friends, and colleagues. And catch her joy in history and travel as her life unfolds to benefit all of us.