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Paris Passions: Watching the French Being Brilliant and Bizarre

Paris Passions: Watching the French Being Brilliant and Bizarre

Spicer, Keith

Paperback

AnthropologyFrance

ISBN10: 1439213925
ISBN13: 9781439213926
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Dec 10 2008
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Paris and France as observed wryly and up-close by a long-term North American Paris resident. Seventy-two witty, sharply observed vignettes of daily life, personalities, women, society, culture, history, esthetics, economics and politics, with connecting mini-essays as context and introduction to each topic. A book full of color and humor that skewers French foibles and hypocrisies, while offering clear-eyed praise for France's values and lifestyle. Not a museum-by-museum guidebook, but a book that gives you an intimate feel for Paris and France today -- including their ever-present history and the ways French think, react, and look at the world. The author's passion for his borrowed homeland suggests that you too might be in danger of falling head-over-heels in love with all things French.

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