| Description |
x, 102 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Abbreviations and acronyms -- Accents and language -- Americanization -- Anglo-Saxon -- Animals -- Bleu-blanc-rouge -- Bourgeoisie -- Bread and pastries -- Bridges and tunnels -- Business -- Cafés -- Calling cards -- Chic and designer luxury goods -- Cinema -- Cocorico! -- COnversation -- Cultural tourism -- Culture -- Decoration -- Documents and forms -- Drinking -- Driving -- Ecology -- Education -- Europe -- Extra! -- Family -- Fashion -- Flowers and gardens -- Friendship -- Frogs and snails, garlic and truffles -- Gambling -- Gastronomy and restaurants -- Gendarmes and demonstrations -- Gestures -- Government and politics -- Grandeur -- Greetings and farewells -- Guillotine -- Health and fitness -- Hexagon -- Hight tech -- Holidays -- Housing -- Humor -- Immigration -- Je t'aime -- Joie de vivre -- Kilos -- Kissing -- Leisure -- Liberté, égalité, fraternité -- Logic -- Marriage and divorce -- La Marseillaise -- Meals -- Media -- Men and women -- Money -- Names and name days -- Number -- Overseas departments and territories -- Paris -- Parisians -- Politeness and directness -- Queues (lines) -- Regionalization -- Religion -- Republic -- Rights -- Shopping -- Sports -- Street names and addresses -- Time -- Transport -- Urban and rural life -- Vacations -- Work and unemployment -- World wars and colonial wars -- X -- Xenophobia -- Yéyé -- Zapping -- Zut! |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 93) and index. |
| Subject |
National characteristics, French.
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France -- Social life and customs.
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| ISBN |
0844214957 |
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