Recently Released
 |
 |
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
Recently Caught
|
|
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
Social Links
Bookish Quotes
"I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept."
Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France but Not the French
Books Registered
|
by Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie Barlow
category Nonfiction
Buy from one of these Booksellers:
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Amazon Editorial Review
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
Other books you might like:
11 Copies Registered
Registered by 
elizardbreath
of Pendleton, Oregon USA on Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Current status: to be read 
