title: French Lessons: The Art of Living and Loving Well!
author: E J Gore
description: E. J. Gore, Texan by birth, French by choice, is an author, screenwriter and life coach. Her admiration for womens power to transform themselves and her love for The City of Light, inspired her to write <em>French Lessons</em>. She lives in California with her husband Manuel and a Zen Master disguised as a miniature schnauzer, Beatty.
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  # Esmerelda
  
  
  ### Frances Hodgson Burnett
  
  
  
  
  
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  To begin, I am a Frenchman, a teacher of languages and a poor man; --
  necessarily a poor man, as the great world would say, or I should not be a
  teacher of languages and my wife a copyist of great pictures, selling her
  copies at small prices. In our own eyes, it is true, we are not so poor -- my
  Clelie and I. Looking back upon our past we congratulate ourselves upon our
  prosperous condition. There was a time when we were poorer than we are now,
  and were not together, and were, moreover, in London instead of in Paris.
  These were indeed calamities: to be poor, to teach, to live apart, not even
  knowing each other -- and in England! In England we spent years; we instructed
  imbeciles of all grades; we were chilled by east winds, 