Laura Freeman - Contributors to Slightly Foxed Magazine

Laura Freeman is a freelance writer and critic. She writes for the Spectator, Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Evening Standard, Apollo, Standpoint and TLS.

Her work has been short-listed for Feature Writer of the Year at the British Press Awards.

www.laurasfreeman.com

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The Paris Effect

Laura Freeman on Nancy Mitford’s Parisian novels

Brimming. That was how I spent my first weeks in Paris. Brimming with tears at the smallest setback. For Nancy Mitford’s Northey in Don’t Tell Alfred, dispatched to Paris to be secretary to Fanny Wincham, the new Madame l’Ambassadrice at the British Embassy, it is the ‘cruel food’ of France that sets her off. Beef consommé. Brimming. Lobster. Brimming. Foie gras. Brimming. ‘A Frenchman on board told me what they do to sweet geese for pâté de foie gras,’ says Northey at dinner on her first night at the Ambassador’s Residence. ‘Very wrong and stupid of him,’ says Fanny.

1 Mar 2019

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