The French

Author: Theodore Zeldin

An eye-opening, amusing, and immensely readable guide to a nation themselves - sure to please anyone who has ever been inspired, exasperated, amused or entranced by the French.

This is a guide to France intended for the traveller who wants to get to know French people as individuals, for the negotiating businessman and for students who wishes to discover in-depth aspects of their lives. It looks at what makes up the national character of France.

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An eye-opening, amusing, and immensely readable guide to a nation themselves - sure to please anyone who has ever been inspired, exasperated, amused or entranced by the French.

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An eye-opening, amusing, and immensely readable guide to a nation themselves - sure to please anyone who has ever been inspired, exasperated, amused or entranced by the French.This is a guide to France intended for the traveller who wants to get to know French people as individuals, for the negotiating businessman and for students who wishes to discover in-depth aspects of their lives. It looks at what makes up the national character of France.

Awards

Winner of Enid McLeod Literary Award 1983

About the Author

THEODORE ZELDIN is a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford.His two-volume history, France 1848-1945 (1973,1977) receivedinternational acclaim- The Times called it "brilliant, original, enter-taining and inexhaustible"; Paris Match said that is was "the mostperspicacious, the most deeply researched, the liveliest and themost enthralling panorama of French passions." His other booksinclude the novel Happiness (1988). Theodore Zeldin has beenawarded the Wolfson Prize and figures on Magazine Litteraire's listof the hundreds most important thinkers in the world today.