- Petite Anglaise
Petite Anglaise is the pseudonym of
Catherine Sanderson , a Britishblog ger living in Paris, whose blog articles caused her to be sacked fromDixon Wilson Chartered Accountants. Subsequently she was offered a publishing deal, and her first book, "Petite Anglaise" is scheduled for release 2008.The phrase "petite anglaise" translates literally as "little english (female)", and is commonly used by French people to refer to English people.
Sanderson's blog touches on various personal issues, but was written until July 2006 entirely anonymously. In April 2006 her employer became aware of the blog, and sacked her, initially for gross misconduct, though this was later revised to "dismissal for real and serious cause - breakdown of trust". The press interest [cite web | url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/18/wblog18.xml | date=2006-07-19 | author=Colin Randall | title=Wrote blog and got sack. V. bad. Will sue| publisher="
Daily Telegraph " | accessdate=2008-02-05 ] as a result of this resulted in her identity being revealed by theDaily Mail newspaper [cite web | url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=396393&in_page_id=1770&ico=Homepage&icl=TabModule&icc=picbox&ct=5 | date=2006-07-19 | author=Peter Allen | title=Online 'Bridget Jones' diary gets secretary sacked| publisher="Daily Mail " | accessdate=2008-02-05 ] . She took her former employer to an employment tribunal, where in March 2007 her complaint was upheld and she was awarded €44,000 plus legal costs. [cite web | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,,2046398,00.html | date=2007-03-30 | author=Bobbie Johnson| title=Briton sacked for writing Paris blog wins tribunal case| publisher="Guardian " | accessdate=2008-02-05 ]In September 2006 she signed a deal with
Penguin Books to write two books [cite web | url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/21/nbook21.xml| date=2007-02-21 | author=Colin Randall| title='Petite Anglaise' moves from blog to book| publisher="Daily Telegraph " | accessdate=2008-02-05 ] . The first of these - a memoir based on events recounted in the blog - was released in the United Kingdom on 6th March 2008, and was released on 17th June in the USA.References
External links
* [http://www.petiteanglaise.com/ Petite Anglaise]
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