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France, a Nation on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Name: France, a Nation on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
ISBN: 9781783340859

Door
- Jonathan Miller
Uitgever
- Gibson Square

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Taal: Engels
Format
Categorie: Non-fictie

Meet the real French, and chuckle!The French are savvy, sophisticated, elegant — Right? Wrong! The French...* lecture the world about haute cuisine yet they eat more McDonald's hamburgers than anywhere else in the world* roll their eyes at foreign culture even as CSI is their most watched TV programme* pretend to be literary though Fifty Shades of Gray is France's best-selling book, everAlmost two decades ago Jonathan Miller moved to France. Soon he discovered the hilarious truth. The modern French live in a feverish state of fantasy. People are paid to pretend to work, pretend to strike, and generally think work causes depression and suicide. Dental hygienists are illegal, yet the French exchange a staggering 184 billion kisses every year. While preaching liberté, the State forbids everything, is run by one school's alumni, messes up over two thirds of the economy. It goes on....

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Ebook: 1 augustus 2019