Congratulations to undergraduate Samantha Zeid for receiving the highest honors in the American Journal of French Studies 2020 national writing competition in French! Samantha’s essay “Une histoire d’amour” was written in response to the prompt “Why did you start learning French?” It was placed eleventh out of the over 1,000 submissions the American Journal of French Studies received from around the country. Samantha is double-majoring in French and Sociology, for honors.