They Eat Horses, Don't They?

The Truth About the French

Piu Marie Eatwell

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English

Head of Zeus
04 September 2013

History; European history; Social & cultural history; Cultural studies

An informative, richly entertaining, myth-busting tour of France that will change the way you think about the French.

England's centuries-old, love-hate relationship with their closest neighbour 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 colonised by Boden-clad, Volvo-driving Brits.

Piu Das 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 neighbour than 365 types of cheese, and that the reality of modern French life is very different from the myths that we create about it.

By: Piu Marie Eatwell
Imprint: Head of Zeus
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781781854440
ISBN 10: 1781854440
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 04 September 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Author Website: http://www.wardmccandlish.co.uk/AuthorPhoto/HeadofZeus/Piu_Marie_Eatwell.jpg

Of mixed Asian/English descent, Piu Marie Eatwell has a congratulatory First Class degree from Oxford University. She has lived and worked in France for ten years.

Reviews for They Eat Horses, Don't They?: The Truth About the French

Blowing away the cliched perception of our neighbours... A fine read' * The Sun * Bracingly factual... tackles egregious stereotypes head-on' * Daily Mail * An intriguing portrait of just how much France has changed... the perfect antidote for the disconnect between what modern-day France is really like and how we romantically perceive it' * Spectator * Entertaining and fluently written. * The Times *