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They eat horses, don't they?:, the truth about the French, Piu Marie Eatwell

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They eat horses, don't they?:, the truth about the French, Piu Marie Eatwell

Language

eng

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Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

They eat horses, don't they?:

Nature of contents

dictionaries

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Piu Marie Eatwell

Sub title

the truth about the French

Summary

The centuries old, love hate relationship with our closest neighbor has spawned a plethora of myths and stereotypes. In recent years our stock of received wisdom about the French - land of the sophisticated lover, the wine fuelled lunch, the gitane puffing philosopher, the hairy female armpit and the rebarbatively squalid toilet - has been replenished by a new generation of lifestyle myths: that French women don't get fat, that French children don't throw food, that their countryside has been colonized by Bodenclad, Volvodriving Brits. In THEY EAT HORSES, DON'T THEY?, Piu Marie Eatwell explores the background to, and the contemporary evidence for, 45 such myths. She finds that many of them are simply false, and that even those that are broadly true are rather more complicated than at first sight. In the course of her thorough - and thoroughly entertaining - investigations, we discover there is more to our enigmatic Gallic neighbor than 365 types of cheese, and that the reality of modern French life is very different from the myths that we create about it

Target audience

adult

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