once upon a time, I could read En Attendant Godot, Moderato Cantabile (that's Marguerite Duras that is), and de Toqueville's L'Ancien régime et la Révolution -- in the original, the lot of them.

it's all gone to rust, through disuse, my A-Level French

so I'll be needing to dust off my trusty Harraps French to English Dictionary if I'm to have any hopes of making an ounce of sense out of this thorough looking article on La musique hantologique by someone called Fabien (he neglected to leave his surname and I can't find it on the piece)