Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong

from manadabomb

Written by Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow, this book tries to explain why so many people love France but not the French. An interesting book, although a bit dry at times, it travels through the reasons the French are just worlds away from any other country. It starts out with French history ...

from trbixby

by Ruth: The book really is as interesting as the title would lead one to believe, though honestly it plumbs such depths that I still don't feel as if I have begun to grasp all of its implications. But it has provided us with a helpful framework to begin to understand how the French are different...

from vguy

Wide-ranging look at all aspects of modern French life. Most interesting is how the state has come to dominate and be accepted as the dominator. Also, how much Napoleon did to lay the foundations, shaky through most of the 19th and half of the 20th centuries, ready for de Gaulle to complete the s...

from Cecilturtle

Nadeau and Barlow embark in a thorough journey to determine what make the French tick from a North American perspective. This book has become somewhat of a bible for North Americans who wish to experience France and with reason. The book is carefully crafted into various themes, easy to read and ...

from vpfluke

I enjoyed reading this book. It is written by a Canadian husband and wife team, the first is French and the second is English. They spent two years in France to explore and understand the country. The country is enigmatic for North Americans, with a large bureaucracy and a top-down style but actu...