This weekend there is lots of news about the restoration of Notre Dame and its reopening. It is truly amazing. I attended a service there in i970. I was blown away.



Today I was blown away listening to the French artisans being interviewed and using complex English verb tenses. “I believe the original artisans would have wanted. . .” I think that tense is conditional past perfect. Not sure. I’m a native speaker and an old English teacher and I sometimes don’t know whether the conditional or the subjunctive is needed in my mother tongue. So much about the French to admire — food, architecture, fashion, polylingualism.