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Nadeau, Jean-Benoît.

Sixty million Frenchmen can't be wrong : why we love France but not the French / Jean-Benoît Nadeau & Julie Barlow.

Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, ©2003.

xv, 351 pages : map ; 21 cm

A journey into the French heart, mind, and soul. Decrypts French ideas about land, food, privacy, and language. Weaves together the threads of French society from centralization and the Napoleonic Code to elite education and street protests, giving us for the first time a complete picture of the French.

National characteristics, French.

France -- Social life and customs.

Barlow, Julie, 1968-

60 million Frenchmen can't be wrong

Includes index.

Meet the aborigines -- The land on their mind -- Private space -- Grandeur is better -- The art of eloquence -- Until-the-bitter-end-ism -- World War II: the unforgotten war -- Algeria: the unacknowledged war -- The penchant for absolutism -- The state: one for all, and all for one -- Dogs, towns, and local government -- Strong language -- Elite education -- The enarchy -- In the name of the law -- Civil society: invisible helping hands -- The choreography of protest -- Redistributing wealth -- Economic interventionism: the state will do -- The world according to France -- The French melting pot -- New checks and balances -- The meaning of Europe.

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