They eat horses, don't they? : the truth about the French / Piu Marie Eatwell.
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TextPublisher: London : Head of Zeus, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 342 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781781854440 (hc); 9781781854433 (ebk)Other title: They eat horses, do not they?Subject(s): French | National characteristics, FrenchDDC classification: 305.841 Summary: The centuries-old, love-hate relationship between Britain and France has spawned a plethora of stereotypes. In recent years our stock of received wisdom about the French - land of the sophisticated lover and the wine-fuelled lunch - has been replenished by a new generation of lifestyle myths: that French women don't get fat, that French children don't throw food, that their countryside has been colonised by Boden-clad Brits. Eatwell explores the background to, and evidence for, 45 such myths, finds that many of them are simply false, and that even those that are broadly true are more complicated than at first sight. In the course of the author's thorough - and thoroughly entertaining - investigations, we discover that the reality of modern French life is very different from the myths that we create about it.
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The centuries-old, love-hate relationship between Britain and France has spawned a plethora of stereotypes. In recent years our stock of received wisdom about the French - land of the sophisticated lover and the wine-fuelled lunch - has been replenished by a new generation of lifestyle myths: that French women don't get fat, that French children don't throw food, that their countryside has been colonised by Boden-clad Brits. Eatwell explores the background to, and evidence for, 45 such myths, finds that many of them are simply false, and that even those that are broadly true are more complicated than at first sight. In the course of the author's thorough - and thoroughly entertaining - investigations, we discover that the reality of modern French life is very different from the myths that we create about it.
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