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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 powerSo 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.
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Sixty million Frenchmen can't be wrong (why we love France, but not the French), Jean Benoît Nadeau, Julie Barlow
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- Released
- 2003
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jean Benoît Nadeau, Julie Barlow
- Publisher
- Sourcebooks
- Released
- 2003
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN10
- 1402200455
- ISBN13
- 9781402200458
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, History, Maps & Travel, Travel, Political Science & Politics, Politics, France, Sociology, Culture and Society
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
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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 powerSo 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.