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On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 21:44:55 -0700, Robert Woodward
<robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

>In article <vf3fsl$h0gu$1@dont-email.me>,
> William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Don wrote:
>>=20
>> > Bobby Sellers, how do you imagine Poirot's being Belgian precludes =
his
>> > (and Christie's own) Francophilia? Or perhaps, as you see it, their
>> > Francophilia is also imaginary? (In the latter case we'll agree to
>> > disagree.)
>>=20
>>=20
>> Read the books, and you will understand.
>>=20
>
>It has been a few decades since I have read any of the Hercule Poirot=20
>stories, but I don't remember any comment that he was a Francophone.=20
>That he almost certainly was one was obvious.

I think you mean "Francophile". He is, after all, a French-speaking
Belgian. And proud of it.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"