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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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- 2003
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- Inglés
- Autores
- Jean Benoît Nadeau, Julie Barlow
- Editorial
- Sourcebooks
- Publicado en
- 2003
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 368
- ISBN10
- 1402200455
- ISBN13
- 9781402200458
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Ciencias sociales, Tema histórico, Historia, Mapas y viajes, Viajes, Ciencias políticas & Política, Política, Francia, Sociología, Cultura y Sociedad
- Calificación
- 3,75 de 5
- Descripción
- 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.