TYLER COWEN reports from Paris that the mood is “subdued” and adds:

The Parisians, however, have never been nicer to me. I find not a trace of snobbery or hostility. Everyone is quite willing to speak English once they hear my miserable French.

I use the same technique to ensure linguistic submission. It works every time, but now I can’t go back, as the Academie Francaise has a warrant out on me for the murder of the French language.

It’s a fair cop.