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*To Sister Christine*▶

6, PLACE DES ETATS UNIS, PARIS,▶

*15th September 1900*.▶

DEAR CHRISTINA,▶

Your letter was very reassuring. I am so glad this summer did you good. So you did not get enamoured of New York City.▶

Well, I am getting enamoured of Paris. I now am living with a M. Jules Bois, a French savant, who has been a student and admirer of my works.▶

He talks very little English; in consequence, I have to trot out my jargon French and am succeeding well, he says. I can now understand if he will talk slowly.▶

Day after tomorrow I go to Bretagne [Brittany] where our American friends are enjoying the sea breeze — and the massage.1▶

I go with M. Bois for a short visit; *après cet* [after that] I don't know where I go. I am getting quite Frenchy, *connaissezvous* [do you know]? I am also studying *grammaire* and hard at work. [Sentence torn off] In a few months I hope to be Frenchy, but by that time I will forget it by staying in England.▶

I am strong, well and content — no morbidity.▶

*Au revoir*,▶

VIVEKANANDA.▶