Question for those who likes "War and peace"

[dumbledore11214]

Yeah, I know. I will probably be looking for a long time :) Not many 
people manage to read it in the original in high school, so I cannot 
be too hopeful for the translation.

But, hey, I will ask anyways, it is one of my favorite books of all 
time, so I am curious about certain translation thingy.

It is just so happened that we touched as to who read *War and peace* 
with my coworkers and I said that I love this book, the only thing is 
that when I read it second time, I did not bother to read some of 
footnotes translations from french, starting from the conversations 
in the saloon of Anna Pavlovna Sherer.

Soooo, my coworker looks at me and asks (in a very nice and funny 
way, don't get me wrong)

You, show - off, you read it in French too? I stare at him and answer 
that no, I did not read it in French, I don't speak French at all, 
but Tolstoy put in some French conversations (not much, but some in   
the beginning) to show that before Napoleon invaded Russia in 1812, 
Russian nobility loved French, many of them were fluent in French and 
between themselves often spoke in French more often than in Russian.

He tells me that English translation does not have French sentences 
in, everything is translated in English, but he did not remember for 
sure.

Is that true, if anybody remembers? I will of course go check it out 
myself, but maybe I don't have to bother.

If this is true, it reminds me of renaming *Philosopher stone* for 
some reasons.

I mean, really, there was a reason why Tolstoy, whose language I love 
( Russian I mean) left in some french sentences and translated them 
on footnotes.

Thematic sense I mean.

Thanks guys,

Alla