Over 5,000 applicants aged 10-90 were chosen to participate in three sessions led by novelist Rachid Santaki. Read more at straitstimes.com.
PARIS - Not to be outdone by US-style spelling bee extravaganzas, Paris’s most famous street the Champs-Elysees was transformed into an open-air mass “dictation” spellathon Sunday, pitting thousands of France’s brainiest bookworms against one another.
Over 5,000 applicants aged 10-90 were chosen to participate in three sessions led by novelist Rachid Santaki. In the first round, an excerpt of La Mule du Pape by renowned French writer Alphonse Daudet was read by journalist Augustin Trapenard, of Libraries Without Borders. In his final year of primary school, top student Antoine attended with his father and, despite being a star pupil, he had struggled to fill his page.His father Adrien Blind, 42, was equally relieved when the session wrapped, saying he “was in a state of stress and worry”.“I only made two mistakes! I expected it to be much harder,” she said.
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