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France, a Nation on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
eBook
ISBN/EAN: 9781783340859
Umbreit-Nr.: 9580355
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 288 S., 0.35 MB
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 01.08.2019
Auflage: 1/2019
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Digitales Wasserzeichen
- Zusatztext
- Meet the real French, and chuckle!The French are savvy, sophisticated, elegant Right? Wrong! The French...* lecture the world about haute cuisine yet they eat more McDonald's hamburgers than anywhere else in the world* roll their eyes at foreign culture even as CSI is their most watched TV programme* pretend to be literary though Fifty Shades of Gray is France's best-selling book, everAlmost two decades ago Jonathan Miller moved to France. Soon he discovered the hilarious truth. The modern French live in a feverish state of fantasy. People are paid to pretend to work, pretend to strike, and generally think work causes depression and suicide. Dental hygienists are illegal, yet the French exchange a staggering 184 billion kisses every year. While preaching liberté, the State forbids everything, is run by one school's alumni, messes up over two thirds of the economy. It goes on....
- Kurztext
- Meet the real French, and chuckle!The French are savvy, sophisticated, elegant - Right? Wrong! The French...* lecture the world about haute cuisine yet they eat more McDonald's hamburgers than anywhere else in the world* roll their eyes at foreign culture even as CSI is their most watched TV programme* pretend to be literary though Fifty Shades of Gray is France's best-selling book, everAlmost two decades ago Jonathan Miller moved to France. Soon he discovered the hilarious truth. The modern French live in a feverish state of fantasy. People are paid to pretend to work, pretend to strike, and generally think work causes depression and suicide. Dental hygienists are illegal, yet the French exchange a staggering 184 billion kisses every year. While preaching liberte, the State forbids everything, is run by one school's alumni, messes up over two thirds of the economy. It goes on....
- Autorenportrait
- Jonathan Miller writes for the Spectator and Sunday Times. His Languedoc village of 2,500 inhabitants overwhelmingly elected him to their local council in order to introduce some Anglo-Saxon common sense - or so he thought...