Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong
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The French...<br><br>-Smoke, drink and eat more fat than anyone in the world, yet live longer and have fewer heart problems than Americans<br><br>-Work 35-hour weeks, and take seven weeks of paid holidays per year, but are still the world's fourth-biggest economic power<br><br>So what makes the French so different?<br><br>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.<br><br>"[A] readable and insightful piece of work." --Montreal Mirror<br><br>"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<br><br>"A must-read." --Edmonton Journal<br><br><br>
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