Article: French experience accounts for allure of this Quebec city.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

MONTREAL _ Feel free to read this story with a sham of a French accent. Give it your best Maurice Chevalier. You know: Every little breeze seems to whisper Louise.

Exactement!

This puts you in the right mood for a trip to Montreal. The French-language mood. To me the whole point of going to Montreal is to swim in French.

That's not to say you must know how to speak French. It's really more fun if you don't. Better to let the French swirl around you and occasionally throw in a few easy exclamations en francais.

Absolument!

In Montreal everybody speaks French. The menus are in French, signs are in French _ even those scrolling ...

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