Editing Julia Child (section)

===Post-war France===
Child repeatedly recalled her first meal at [[La Couronne (restaurant)|La Couronne]] in [[Rouen]] as a culinary revelation. Once, she had described the meal of [[oyster]]s, [[sole meunière]], and fine wine to ''[[The New York Times]]'' as "an opening up of the soul and spirit for me." In 1951, she graduated from the famous [[Le Cordon Bleu|Cordon Bleu]] cooking school in Paris and later studied privately with Max Bugnard and other master chefs.<ref>{{cite news |journal=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/11/arts/11iht-bookwed.html |title=Books: My Life in France |first=William |last=Grimes |date=April 11, 2006 |access-date=May 24, 2013}}</ref> She joined the women's cooking club ''[[Le Cercle des Gourmettes]]'', through which she met [[Simone Beck]], who was writing a French cookbook for Americans with her friend [[Louisette Bertholle]]. Beck proposed that Child work with them to make the book appeal to Americans. In 1951, Child, Beck, and Bertholle began to teach cooking to American women in Child's Paris kitchen, calling their informal school ''[[École des trois gourmandes|L'école des trois gourmandes]]'' (The School of the Three Food Lovers). For the next decade, as the Childs moved around Europe and finally to [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], the three researched and repeatedly tested recipes. Child translated the [[French language|French]] into [[English language|English]], making the recipes detailed, interesting, and practical.

In 1963, the Childs built a home near the [[Provence]] town of [[Plascassier]] in the hills above [[Cannes]] on property belonging to co-author Beck and her husband, Jean Fischbacher. The Childs named it "[[La Pitchoune|La&nbsp;Pitchoune]]", a [[Provençal dialect|Provençal]] word meaning "the little one" but over time the property was often affectionately referred to simply as "La Peetch".<ref name="MLIF">{{cite book |last=Child |first=Julia |author2=Prud'homme, Alex |title=My Life in France |publisher=Random House |year=2006 |pages=268–272 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8cKLQO4bgDQC&pg=PA85 |isbn=978-0-307-27769-5}}</ref>

In his [[New York Times]] best-selling book, ''Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child'', author [[Bob Spitz]] stated that Child was diagnosed with [[breast cancer]] in the mid-60s. She had a [[mastectomy]] on February 28, 1968.<ref>{{cite news| last=Kingston| first=Anne| date=August 15, 2012| title=Julia Child at 100| url=https://www.macleans.ca/society/life/julia-child-at-100/| magazine=[[Maclean's]]| access-date=April 11, 2022}}</ref>