The French

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Gott skick. HarperCollinsPublishers / . 1988. 542 s. Storpocket. Smärre bruksspår. Bok på engelska om fransmännen: 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 the student who wishes to discover aspects of their lives that text books omit. The author also wrote the two-volume history France, 1848-1945" (1973,1977) and "Happiness". There are a zillion guides to France jostling for position on travel shelves, but none gives more than a cursory Gallic nod to the people some people love to hate--the French themselves. Theodore Zeldin, an Englishman with great insight into his neighbors across the channel, has written the ultimate guide to the French, including how to laugh at their jokes, when to look solemn, how to appreciate French grandmothers, and how not to be intimidated by their intellectuals. It's a sympathetic, funny, serious, richly readable, charming book that hits the spot and fills a need. "The best expert on France is British citizen. His name is Theodore Zeldin." - Les Nouvelles d'Orléans. "Everything is fascinating in this enquiry by an Englishman who knows us better than we know ourselves."-Livres de France "Highly intelligent, observant, perceptive, humorous, and sympathetic." - The Spectator. "[This] highly readable book topples one Gallic Stereotype after another. Centuries of inaccurate assumptions melt away." - Newsweek. - - In a ceremony in Zeldin´s honour, the French Ambassador in London said that his books, caused a sensation in France. You are no doubt the person from outside France who has best analysed, decoded and understood us. It´s often been through reading you that I`ve found the most pertinent observations on our country and its complexity, observations that are sometimes cruel, always accurate, and also imbued with great friendship and, I would say, almost tenderness? An observer who is at once critical and loving, demanding and generous, you are without equal in holding up to us a mirror that accurately reflects both our virtues and our failings. Indeed, you seek meticulously to understand us and to improve not only your compatriots understanding of the French and hence our ability to work better together but also relationships between human beings in general?.