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France, a Nation on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, EPUB eBook

France, a Nation on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown EPUB

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Meet the real French, and chuckle!The French are savvy, sophisticated, elegant - Right?

Wrong! The French...* lecture the world about haute cuisine yet they eat more McDonald's hamburgers than anywhere else in the world* roll their eyes at foreign culture even as CSI is their most watched TV programme* pretend to be literary though Fifty Shades of Gray is France's best-selling book, everAlmost two decades ago Jonathan Miller moved to France.

Soon he discovered the hilarious truth. The modern French live in a feverish state of fantasy.

People are paid to pretend to work, pretend to strike, and generally think work causes depression and suicide.

Dental hygienists are illegal, yet the French exchange a staggering 184 billion kisses every year.

While preaching liberte, the State forbids everything, is run by one school's alumni, messes up over two thirds of the economy.

It goes on....

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