Lucy Vickery

Competition | 7 February 2009

Lucy Vickery presents the latest competition

issue 07 February 2009

In Competition No. 2581 you were invited to take a passage from a classic of French literature and recast it in Franglais.

The challenge was inspired by Miles Kington’s masterly The Franglais Lieutenant’s Woman and Other Literary Masterpieces, and the standard was top-tiroir. You inflicted mongrel French and English on the literary classics to great comic effect. Here is G.M. Davis’s version of the opening to Rimbaud’s ‘A Season in Hell’: ‘Il y a yonks, si je remember correctement, j’avais it large, avec beaucoup de bons mates and beaucoup de plonk flowing…’ Formidable!

There were some unfamiliar names sprinkled among the seasoned veterans. A commendation goes to Jane Robertson, while the winners, printed below, net £25 each. The extra fiver belongs to Guillaume Greenwell.

Camille, qui était trés ticklish, commençait à giggler comme un teenager, ou maybe un hyena.

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