I have always had a passion for anything French... it began in 4th Grade with the formal introduction of M. et Mme Patapouf and Monsieur Thibeault. Oh, how I adored "la langue française" and worked feverishly to decode what was written. I fervently, no, painstakingly studied numbers to 20 and lists of nouns and verbs. "Tragiquement", it