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(Dear God, my husband’s been relocated to Alsace!)

by Laurence WINTER

The Little Book of Appropriate Behaviour, for the use of all new arrivals in Alsace, teaching them to avoid potential embarrassment or disappointment.

The most-read publication in Alsace. Think about it: finally a method to understand Alsatian and learn how to live amongst the Alsatians! Because everything is so complicated between the Vosges mountains and the Rhine (mentality, history, customs, the language) even the most fervent of the friends of Alsace are often forced to retire.

Now thanks to Laurence Winter and her chapters that are so clear and funny, subtle and well-documented, thanks to her practical advice, her exercises, and her references, you can finally avoid all those bloopers and incidents and, with a lot of perseverance, become “an Alsatian at heart and by adoption”, the biggest compliment you can receive in Alsace, this region that sometimes appears to be irritatingly elusive, but that also knows how to be really welcoming and generous.

Victim of its own success, it has also been adapted to the case of the region of Brittany by Patrick Denieul: “Ciel ! mon mari est muté en Bretagne” – “Dear God, My husband’s been relocated to Brittany” ( La Nuée Bleue / Le Télégramme).