Jean-Benoit Nadeau

Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong

What Makes the French So French

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The French drink, smoke and eat more fat than anyone in the world, yet they live longer and have fewer heart problems than the English and the Americans. They work 35-hour weeks and take seven weeks' paid holiday each year, yet they are the world's fourth-biggest economic power. So how do they do it? From a distance modern France looks like a riddle. It is both rigidly authoritarian, yet incredibly inventive; traditional (even archaic) yet modern; lacking clout on the international stage yet still hugely influential. But with the observations, anecdotes and analysis of the authors, who spent nearly three years living in France, it begins to m… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Barlow, Julie

ISBN: 978-1-86105-715-0
EAN: 9781861057150
Produktnummer: 9898288
Verlag: Pavilion Books Group Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Seitenangabe: 351 S.
Masse: H21.0 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.9 cm 450 g
Gewicht: 450

Über den Autor

Born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, in 1964, Jean-Benoit Nadeau holds a bachelor's degree in political science and history from McGill University. A journalist since 1987, he has been the recipient of 17 journalism awards.