The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed
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Julie Barlow. (2016). The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Julie Barlow. 2016. The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Julie Barlow, The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2016.

Julie Barlow. The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2016.

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   • bioText: Canadian journalist-author JULIE BARLOW is a regular contributor to Montreal public affairs magazine L'actualité. Her writing has appeared in magazines and newspapers in the U.S. Canada and Europe, including the New York Times, USA Today, Toronto Star, and the International Herald Tribune. In 2003, Barlow published an international bestseller Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong with her husband and co-author Jean-Benoît Nadeau. In 2006 the couple published the critical success The Story of French. They've also released The Story of Spanish.
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