French Without Tears

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French Without Tears is a comic play written by Terence Rattigan in 1936. It takes place in a cram school for adults needing to acquire French for business reasons. The play was a raging success on its London debut, establishing Rattigan as a first-rank dramatist. However, the comedy reflected its own time so well that little of it seems funny today. Contemporaries seemed to find the flippant attitudes of the young people towards love and sex amusing and delightful. Scattered throughout are Franglais phrases and schoolboy howler type misunderstandings of the French language.

It was made into a film in 1940, directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Ray Milland.

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