The author of A Year in the Merde and Talk to the Snail offers a highly biased and hilarious view of French history in this international bestseller. Things have been just a littl… Mehr…
The author of A Year in the Merde and Talk to the Snail offers a highly biased and hilarious view of French history in this international bestseller. Things have been just a little awkward between Britain and France ever since the Norman invasion in 1066. Fortunatelyafter years of humorously chronicling the vast cultural gap between the two countriesauthor Stephen Clarke is perfectly positioned to investigate the historical origins of their occasionally hostile and perpetually entertaining pas de deux. Clarke sets the record straight, documenting how French braggarts and cheats have stolen credit rightfully due their neighbors across the Channel while blaming their own numerous gaffes and failures on those same innocent Brits for the past thousand years. Deeply researched and written with the same sly wit that made A Year in the Merde a comic hit, this lighthearted trip through the past millennium debunks the notion that the Battle of Hastings was a French victory (William the Conqueror was really a Norman who hated the French) and pooh-poohs French outrage over Britain's murder of Joan of Arc (it was the French who executed her for wearing trousers). He also takes the air out of overblown Gallic claims, challenging the provenance of everything from champagne to the guillotine to prove that the French would be nowhere without British ingenuity. Brits and Anglophiles of every national origin will devour Clarke's decidedly biased accounts of British triumph and French ignominy. But 1000 Years of Annoying the French will also draw chuckles from good-humored Francophiles as well as anyone who's ever encountered a snooty Parisian waiter or found themselves driving on the BoulevardPriphrique during August ( The Daily Mail ). A bestseller in Britain, this is an entertaining look at history that fans of Sarah Vowell are sure to enjoy, from the author the San Francisco Chronicle has called the anti-Mayle ... acerbic, insulting, un-PC, and mostly hilarious. History History eBook, Open Road Media<
1000 Years of Annoying the French 1000-Years-of-Annoying-the-French~~Stephen-Clarke World History>France History>France History NOOK Book (eBook), Open Road Media
1000 Years of Annoying the French 1000-Years-of-Annoying-the-French~~Stephen-Clarke History>France History>France History NOOK Book (eBook), Open Road Media
The author of A Year in the Merde and Talk to the Snail offers a highly biased and hilarious view of French history in this international bestseller. Things have been just a littl… Mehr…
The author of A Year in the Merde and Talk to the Snail offers a highly biased and hilarious view of French history in this international bestseller. Things have been just a little awkward between Britain and France ever since the Norman invasion in 1066. Fortunatelyafter years of humorously chronicling the vast cultural gap between the two countriesauthor Stephen Clarke is perfectly positioned to investigate the historical origins of their occasionally hostile and perpetually entertaining pas de deux. Clarke sets the record straight, documenting how French braggarts and cheats have stolen credit rightfully due their neighbors across the Channel while blaming their own numerous gaffes and failures on those same innocent Brits for the past thousand years. Deeply researched and written with the same sly wit that made A Year in the Merde a comic hit, this lighthearted trip through the past millennium debunks the notion that the Battle of Hastings was a French victory (William the Conqueror was really a Norman who hated the French) and pooh-poohs French outrage over Britain's murder of Joan of Arc (it was the French who executed her for wearing trousers). He also takes the air out of overblown Gallic claims, challenging the provenance of everything from champagne to the guillotine to prove that the French would be nowhere without British ingenuity. Brits and Anglophiles of every national origin will devour Clarke's decidedly biased accounts of British triumph and French ignominy. But 1000 Years of Annoying the French will also draw chuckles from good-humored Francophiles as well as anyone who's ever encountered a snooty Parisian waiter or found themselves driving on the BoulevardPriphrique during August ( The Daily Mail ). A bestseller in Britain, this is an entertaining look at history that fans of Sarah Vowell are sure to enjoy, from the author the San Francisco Chronicle has called the anti-Mayle ... acerbic, insulting, un-PC, and mostly hilarious. History History eBook, Open Road Media<
1000 Years of Annoying the French 1000-Years-of-Annoying-the-French~~Stephen-Clarke World History>France History>France History NOOK Book (eBook), Open Road Media
1000 Years of Annoying the French 1000-Years-of-Annoying-the-French~~Stephen-Clarke History>France History>France History NOOK Book (eBook), Open Road Media
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Detailangaben zum Buch - 1000 Years of Annoying the French
EAN (ISBN-13): 9781453243589 Erscheinungsjahr: 2012 Herausgeber: Open Road Media
Buch in der Datenbank seit 2014-10-09T22:13:22+02:00 (Berlin) Detailseite zuletzt geändert am 2019-05-10T22:03:25+02:00 (Berlin) ISBN/EAN: 9781453243589
ISBN - alternative Schreibweisen: 978-1-4532-4358-9 Alternative Schreibweisen und verwandte Suchbegriffe: Autor des Buches: stephen clarke Titel des Buches: annoying french years 1000
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