Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France but Not the French


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By: Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow

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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


Product Details

Paperback: 351 pages

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc. (2003-05-01)

Dimensions (H L W): 90 x 800 x 600

ISBN: 1402200455

EAN: 9781402200458