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[red dune]

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[odd scaffold]

No, passé simple isn’t used orally outside speeches/storytelling

It would be exceedingly odd

[sacred night]

Thanks! What about the B2 writing? Is passé simple good for it?

[odd scaffold]

Unless you're asked to write in the style of a novel or a historical account, no

[mortal basin]

the concept of passé simple is that it's a tense to narrate events contextualized in the past.
As real life is contextualized in the present, you don't have a use for it, and passé composé is used to describe events that happened prior to now.
In a passé simple narration, the concept of "present" doesn't even exist. The story is in its own time frame