The French

The French

by TheodoreZeldin (Author)

Synopsis

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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 560
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 16 Jan 1997

ISBN 10: 1860460755
ISBN 13: 9781860460753
Book Overview: 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.
Prizes: Winner of Enid McLeod Literary Award 1983.

Author Bio
THEODORE ZELDIN is a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. His two-volume history, France 1848-1945 (1973,1977) received international acclaim: The Times called it brilliant, original, enter- taining and inexhaustible ; Paris Match said that is was the most perspicacious, the most deeply researched, the liveliest and the most enthralling panorama of French passions. His other books include the novel Happiness (1988). Theodore Zeldin has been awarded the Wolfson Prize and figures on Magazine Litteraire's list of the hundreds most important thinkers in the world today.