The disdain about speaking English in Paris is when you don't make an effort to speak French first. If you just go straight in with English, they might be a bit- and also there's like a code here that is that you have to say, Bonjour or Bonsoir before you do any transaction. So yeah, the people are normally quite willing to speak to switch to English, but you've got to make an effortto speakFrench first. And it's your partner, French? Yes, she is, yeah. My wife is French. No, we speak English at home. They do speak English. But then having said that, French people love it when you try

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