Readers Respond: You might be a Francophile if ...

Responses: 94

By Laura K. Lawless, About.com Guide

Your home library has more books about France and in French than your books on all other topics in English and other languages added together.
—Guest Jo

You take an interest in things like the subjunctive imperfect while asking yourself: Am I queer?
—Guest eriksbo1

You must be Francophile when your visiting daughter tells you that after surgery. in your rambling, you carried on a completely sensible conversation for over an hour, totally in French, with an imaginary visitor, comedian Allen King, who didn’t even speak French.
—Guest Lauriate Roly

If you go out with an inappropriate man for quite some time mainly because he is French...
—Guest Guest French student

..you are the child of a French war bride and an American soldier. Mom was busy raising 5 daughters all under the age of 4 yrs. old (including triplets!) and learning English. I was chosen to play "Chaperon Rouge" in our 4th gr. French play and I never looked back. Mme Slack from our PBS station was in the audience and I was in heaven. I was the President of the French club in high school. I studied French in college and later lived and worked at a hotel in Les Sables D'Olonne. My dream come true. The first time I went to Paris, I stood under the Arc de Triomphe at 2 am and cried! I have a blog Toutes Choses Francaise" and I don't have to love everything French to be a Francophile!
—Guest Debbie Ramage

I have more French cookbooks than any other kind and I always look first for French dishes to make when planning special events. There are more pictures of the Eiffel tower in my house than anything else. Even my shower curtain has Eiffel towers on it.
—Guest heatherann

you spend more of your time at work on French websites than you actually do working! Really! I'm at work now! :)
—lashadforthaise

you cannot begin the day without learning another French word, studying before your morning coffee and excited to see Laura's newest blog.
—chrystianne

When you'd trek an hour in the cold after midnight just to see some French guy you met the other night.
—Guest Elle

You sing Disney songs in French all the time... We've gotten through The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin. (And Anastasia, though it's not Disney).
—Guest Princeton '14

You start dreaming in French, you want nothing more than to live in France, it is your primary travel destination before visiting any other family who live abroad....
—VivelavieFrancaise

...someone tells you something surprising and you accidentally say Quat? (Quoi + What)
—fottry55i6

If you peux pas t'aider a speaking in french (francais) even when those around you are not! You image you are Edith piaf and that everyone should talk to you in charactère!
—Guest Segoledith

Laura K. Lawless
French Language Guide