[Vwoolf] Still on the early pages

[Stuart N. Clarke]

Years ago, I remember getting bogged down on:

“she had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air.”

All because I read somewhere that french windows in France (on the Continent generally?) open(ed) outwards, while in the UK they opened inwards.  Is this true?  If so, then “burst open” sounds more appropriate for French french windows.  

In the house I grew up in (built 1936), they opened inwards, but in our current house (built 1999) they open outwards, although, because of the various catches, you can’t “burst [them] open”.

Stuart 
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