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    Title
    Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't be Wrong
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Nadeau
    Physical properties
    Format: Paperback
    Number of pages: 351
    Width: 152 mm
    Height: 210 mm
    Thickness: 25 mm
    Weight: 522 g
    Audience
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9781402200458
    ISBN 10: 1402200455
    Classifications
    Dewey: 305.800944
    LC classification: DC34.N33 2
    BISAC category code: TRV010000
    BISAC category code: TRV009050
    BICMainSubject: JHMC
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: S3.2
    BISAC category code: SOC002010
    Dewey: 305.800944
    Publisher
    Sourcebooks, Inc
    Imprint name
    Sourcebooks, Inc
    Publication date
    25 September 2003
    Publication City/Country
    Naperville/US
    Main description
    The French... -Smoke, drink and eat more fat than anyone in the world, yet live longer and have fewer heart problems than Americans -Work 35-hour weeks, and take seven weeks of paid holidays per year, but are still the world's fourth-biggest economic power So what makes the French so different? Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong is a journey into the French heart, mind and soul. Decrypting French ideas about land, privacy and language, Nadeau and Barlow weave together the threads of French society--from centralization and the Napoleonic Code to elite education and even street protests--giving us, for the first time, a complete picture of the French. "[A] readable and insightful piece of work." --Montreal Mirror "In an era of irrational reactions to all things French, here is an eminently rational answer to the question, 'Why are the French like that?'" --Library Journal "A must-read." --Edmonton Journal
    Biographical note
    Canadian journalists Jean-Benoit Nadeau an Julie Barlow have spent the last decade working extensively in both their country's official languages. Born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, in 1964, Jean-Benoit Nadeau holds a bachelor's degree in political science and history from McGill University. A journalist since 1987, he has written for L'actualite, Saturday Night Magazine, National Post Business, and Quebec Science. The holder of seventeen journalism awards, he was granted a two-year fellowship in 1998 by the New Hampshire-based Institute for Current World Affairs to study why the French resist globalization. In 2001, he published a humorous travelogue, Les francais aussi ont un accent (Payon, Paris). He has also traveled in Mexico, the UK, New Zealand, and Algeria. Born in Ancaster, Ontario, in 1968, Julie Barlow holds an honour's degree in political science from McGill University and a master's in English Literature from Concordia University. Over the last decade, she has written for Saturday NIght Magazine, Report on Business Magazine, L'actualite, and other Canadian magazines. In 1998, she worked as Editor-in-Chief of English-language projects at Montreal-based publisher Ma Carriere. In 2003, she published Same Words, Different Language (Piatkus, London) with international gender expert Barbara Annis. She has traveled extensively throughout Europe, North Africa, Israel, Turkey, the Caucasus, Mexico, the UK, and New Zealand. The couple is now based in Montreal, where they are living happily in French and English while producing their next book, The Story of French.