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Lucy Wadham
ISBN: 9780571236114
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Faber and Faber
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Describes the mutual bafflement and fascination that characterised both their subsequent marriage and the author's unfolding relationship with France. This book leads us on a journey through the French moral maze, and examines French attitudes to a range of subjects from marriage and adultery to work and race relations.
In this candid and funny account of her escape from English boys and her love affair with a Frenchman, Lucy Wadham describes the mutual bafflement and fascination that characterised both their subsequent marriage and her unfolding relationship with France. Using her own personal experiences over 25 years, Lucy offers a rare, insider's view of a nation that may be deeply incompatible with ours but is also, she thinks, chronically misunderstood. In "The Secret Life of France", Lucy leads us on a journey through the French moral maze, and examines French attitudes to a range of subjects from marriage and adultery to work and race relations. By taking apart the cliches she helps us gain a better understanding of this nearest and most alien of neighbours, and suggests that on some matters we have much to learn from them.
| ISBN | 0571236111 | | Pages | 288 | | ISBN13 | 9780571236114
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 325 | | Publisher | Faber and Faber | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Faber and Faber | | Height (mm) | 215 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 136 | | Publication date | 02 Jul 2009 | | Spine width (mm) | 22 | | DEWEY | 944 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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| 1 | | Proposal | | | | | | Driving and Breakfast | | 1 | | 2 | | The Secret Garden | | | | | | Slap and Tickle, Guilt and Parking | | 9 | | | | Adultery and the Cult of Beauty | | 16 | | 3 | | Being a Woman | | | | | | La Libido, La Femme Fatale and the Sisterhood | | 36 | | 4 | | Truth versus Beauty | | | | | | Tragedy, Comedy and Historic French Losers | | 51 | | | | Television, Hypocrisy and Ideas | | 57 | | 5 | | The Wedding | | | | | | Catholicism, Anti-Semitism and Le Pen | | 65 | | | | Language, Yoghurt and Hot Rabbits | | 76 | | 6 | | Sublime, Necessary Sublime | | | | | | Mayors, Mass Demonstration and Mayhem | | 89 | | | | Nobility, Freedom and Status | | 96 | | 7 | | Maternity | | | | | | Glory, Breastfeeding and the Norm | | 108 | | 8 | | Education | | | | | | Freud, Maths and the Cult of Reason | | 119 | | | | Smiley, Happy People | | 134 | | 9 | | The Past | | | | | | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | | 140 | | | | French Rudeness, Surrender and Betrayal | | 144 | | | | Collaboration and Defeat | | 162 | | 10 | | Foreign Affairs | | | | | | Cake and Spies | | 172 | | | | Anti-Americanism and La Force de Frappe | | 181 | | 11 | | Tolerance Zero | | | | | More... | | |
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