Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France but Not the French
Jean-Benoit Nadeau, "Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France but Not the French"
English | ISBN: 1402200455 | 2003 | 351 pages | EPUB | 1452 KB
English | ISBN: 1402200455 | 2003 | 351 pages | EPUB | 1452 KB
The French…
-Smoke, drink and eat more fat than anyone in the world, yet live longer and have fewer heart problems than Americans
-Work 35-hour weeks, and take seven weeks of paid holidays per year, but are still the world's fourth-biggest economic power
So what makes the French so different?
Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong is a journey into the French heart, mind and soul. Decrypting French ideas about land, privacy and language, Nadeau and Barlow weave together the threads of French society–from centralization and the Napoleonic Code to elite education and even street protests–giving us, for the first time, a complete picture of the French.
"[A] readable and insightful piece of work." –Montreal Mirror
"In an era of irrational reactions to all things French, here is an eminently rational answer to the question, 'Why are the French like that?'" –Library Journal
"A must-read." –Edmonton Journal