Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France, But Not the French Nadeau Jean-BenoitPaperback
Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France, But Not the French Nadeau Jean-BenoitPaperback The French...Smoke, drink and eat more fat than anyone in the world, yet live longer and…
Specifikacia Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France, But Not the French Nadeau Jean-BenoitPaperback
Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France, But Not the French Nadeau Jean-BenoitPaperback
The French...Smoke, drink and eat more fat than anyone in the world, yet live longer and have fewer heart problems than AmericansWork 35-hour weeks, and take seven weeks of paid holidays per year, but are still the world's fourth-biggest economic powerSo what makes the French so different?Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong is a journey into the French heart, mind and soul. " 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?'" 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.