thank you very much! when I'll publish the book I'll try to replace some of the French parts due to your comments of not understanding much of it:) i've almost finished the novel and your opinions really give me the faith I can publish it! thanks again! :)

(actually, I read the Scarlet Pimpernel, but I didn't like it so much- for those who love French books, I'd better recommend Dangerous Liaisons, Cheri or The Lady of the Camellias, which always inspired me)

i was thinking to make a last chapter in which to put pictures of the dresses and builindings present in the novel, followed by short historical description so that readers could imagine better the background!

anyway, thanks very much for the review!

I think the language you use is beautiful. A couple critiques:

-I take french, so I could understand it, but for someone who has never taken it this would be very hard to read. I understand you wanting to incoperate french, but for the reader's sake I would stick to simple words, or make sure the reader can understand the exact meaning by the context.

-Since this is going to be a novel, I would put somekind of forword in the beginning just to explain, the time and place of the novel and signifigant events that happened at that time  that will contribute to the development of the story.

I wanted to compete with Proust- you should read him to understand what confusing means :) thanks for the comment any way

p.s. just to make the book less confusing, i'll give a list of the characters :

christine- amelie's english friend

annie- amelie's adopted daughter

henri- amelie's lover

the other names are quite known between the fans of the belle epoque time and very easy to find on wikipedia for the rest of readers