 Some of Kerouac's poetry was written in French, and in letters written to friend Allen Ginsberg towards the end of his life, he expressed a desire to speak his parents' native tongue again.In 2016, a whole volume of previously unpublished works originally written in French by Kerouac was published as "La vie est d'hommage".On May 17, 1928, while six years old, Kerouac had his first Confession.