Well bang me like a front-loading washing machine; I just read a whole 70-odd page math paper in French.

(René Thom, Quelques propriétés globales des variétés differentiables. Comm. Math. Helv. 28 (1954), pp. 17-86. It's quite good. A real page-turner. Cobordism groups and representing homology classes by submanifolds. The man was an animal.)