Product Description: This book describes like no others what truly makes Paris life so unique. Olivier Magny is a real Parisian: he was born and raised in the City of Lights and shares here his spot-on analyses and priceless insights about his city. And he does all that with great humor and wit...read more

Product Description: Peter Mayle may have spent a year in Provence, but Harriet Welty Rochefort writes from the wise perspective of one who has spent more than twenty years living among the French. From a small town in Iowa to the City of Light, Harriet has done what so many dream of one day doing-she picked up and moved to France...read more

A humorous guide to what makes the French disliked by every other nation in the world, but particularly Great Britain and America, from their historical rudeness to the fraud alleged to have occurred by Jacques Chirac.

The best-selling author of A Year in the Merde offers a tongue-in-cheek guide to understanding the French, in a series of essays, each illustrating a theme, followed by or interspersed with essential French phrases, anecdotes, and advice. 50,000 first printing.

Product Description: Let's Make Fun of the French

An American columnist for The Independent Herald Tribune who lived in Paris for three decades offers her trenchant observations of France and its people, from cafe culture to the political scene, and everything in-between. Reprint. (view table of contents)

A year spent in France is seen through the postcards of a high school junior, who relates her war with the French language and her feelings of isolation on her first day at school

A year spent in France is seen through the postcards of a high school junior, who relates her war with the French language and her feelings of isolation on her first day at school

Drawings offer a humorous look at life in France, including restaurants, city life, the Tour de France, holidays, romance, concierges, and leisure activities