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50 Reasons to Hate the French: Vive La Difference? is a humorous book by Jules Eden and Alex Clarke that takes an irreverent look at French politics, food, geography, business, and history, in order to delineate just what makes France so "exceptionnel". [1]
History books about France (7 C, 27 P) N. Novels set in France (12 C, 284 P) P. Books about Paris (2 C, 14 P) Books about politics of France (1 C, 9 P)
The book was unable to get certification for publication thus making it banned in Vietnam [302] "Mourning Headband for Hue: An Account of the Battle for Hue, Vietnam 1968" Nha Ca: 1969 Nonfiction The book was banned for its criticism of the actions of the national liberation front and for acknowledging the 1968 massacre of 6000 civilians in Huế
Curren went on to summarize the reasons for the book's importance. "Robert Darnton's acclaimed 1995 work on the late eighteenth-century illegal book trade, The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France, has become one of the most cited and studied texts in its field. The culmination of thirty years' archival reflection, it roots ...
French poetry collections (1 C, 30 P) S. French short story collections ... Book of hours of Joan of France; The Brown Book of the Reichstag Fire and Hitler Terror; C.
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Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France But Not The French. Sourcebooks Trade, 2003. ISBN 1-4022-0045-5; Robb, Graham. The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, from the Revolution to the First World War. New York: Norton, 2007. ISBN 978-0-393-05973-1 (in French) Wylie, Laurence and Jean-François Brière.
The book consists of twenty small chapters, each with a focus on some aspect of French life, manners, and customs from the perspective of someone new to the country. Through a series of vignettes and observations, each chapter explores a subject from the author's perspective as she experienced it, conveying the joys and difficulties encountered ...