Quote of the day
Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.
Jeanne Martinet

Born: March 24, 1920
Died: November 6, 2018 (aged 98)
Bio: Jeanne Martinet was a French semiotician and a proprietor of a semiotics school. Her husband was the eminent linguist André Martinet.
Known for:
- The Art of Mingling (1992)
- Truer than true romance (2001)
- Etiquette for the End of the World (2012)
- The faux pas survival guide (1996)






