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

Title
Sixty million Frenchmen can't be wrong : why we love France but not the French / Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow.
Author
Nadeau, Jean-Benoît
Publication
Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, Inc., c2003.

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Additional Authors
Barlow, Julie.
Description
351 p.; 21 cm.
Summary
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.
Alternative Title
60 million Frenchmen can't be wrong
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
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.
ISBN
1402200455 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2002153446
OCLC
50982370
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library