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

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

by Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie Barlow

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... (read more)

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I read this in a version called "Pas si fous, ces Français ! Les Français - Mode d'emploi" (can't find it here online), which must have been tweaked a little to suit also French readers trying to understand a North American readership trying to understand France. Full of insights that I found helpful (and indeed of statistics that I soon forgot).

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