5/12/2023 0 Comments My Life in France by Julia ChildPaul was ten years older than Julia, a diplomat, and a gourmand who spoke fluent French. As she peered through the fog at the twinkling lights of the harbor, she had no idea what she was looking at. “France was a misty abstraction for me, a land I had long imagined but had no real sense of.” Julia - who thought of herself as “a six-foot-two-inch, thirty-six year-old, rather loud and unserious Californian” - had never been to Europe, didn’t speak much French, and was not a very good cook. On November 3, 1948, Julia and Paul Child arrived in Le Havre, France, aboard the SS America.
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