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- Title: About France (Or, Why the French are So French)
- Author : Joseph Harriss
- Release Date : January 20, 2018
- Genre: Europe,Books,Travel & Adventure,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 696 KB
Description
In this collection of articles, the veteran international journalist Joseph Harriss provides profiles and analysis of French icons and institutions ranging from the Académie Française and the Foreign Legion, to the Concorde supersonic airliner and the Crazy Horse Saloon. With a lively mix of wit and insight, he also explores national quirks such as the French passion for astrology, the wholesale adoption of English words, and the nation's quixotic fixation on the past. The result is an idiosyncratic, often provocative take on France by a perceptive writer with an eye for ironic detail.