How good is Toms French?
Tom is entirely fluent in French. In fact, he has written articles for a French historical journal and has appeared in a debate on French television. He first learned French when his father, a lieutenant colonel in the US Air Force, was stationed in Fontainebleau, France for three years during the 1950’s. Tom and his siblings attended the local French school rather than the American school, so they were forced to learn French very quickly. As an adult, Tom lived in Brussels, Belgium, where he worked at the Archibald law firm and had the opportunity to make many visits to Waterloo. He enjoys reading diaries and memoirs from the Napoleonic period in French as well as French military texts, like Jomeni’s book mentioned above.
