![]() WARNER: The job was at a company that Marie France says just summed up all those grand French values she'd learned in school. MCCUNE: She's planning to save it forever. MCCUNE: The uniform is a short-sleeved knit shirt with blue pants. MARIANNE MCCUNE, BYLINE: So she pulls out this uniform.īEARDSLEY: This is her uniform, her first one. ![]() WARNER: She spent the next decades bouncing from job to job, battling depression, raising her daughter alone. Why bother getting your degree? Why don't you just. And she said a teacher told her one time.īEARDSLEY. They saw her as African or Muslim from this bad neighborhood. WARNER: Our reporters on this story - NPR's Paris correspondent Eleanor Beardsley and our own Marianne McCune.īEARDSLEY: So Marie France, even though she was French and born in France, she says she never really felt French. WARNER: (Speaking French), which is like, oh, fudge, it took Marie France 40 years to feel truly French.ĮLEANOR BEARDSLEY, BYLINE: Marie France grew up in this public housing project in Marseille in the south of France. And though she uses the quaintest French expressions when she's upset. MARIE FRANCE: My name is Marie France (speaking French). Though she has a French passport and the most French of names - Marie France. You're listening to ROUGH TRANSLATION from NPR.
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