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When I started as Cultural Counselor of the French Embassy, everyone told me that I had to meet Claire Messud\\u2014that she was quintessential Francophile intellectual, not to mention author of six works of fiction. We conversed about what it means to be a citizen of the world (2:04), literature (4:45), Flaubert (5:20), Algeria (7:20), and\\xa0feminism (9:50)\\u2014as well as her memories of childhood vacations in the south of France (20:12). It was like talking with a friend, as you\\u2019ll hear now. C\\u2019est parti.