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They Eat Horses Don't They The Truth About the French

The centuries-old, love-hate relationship between England and France has spawned a plethora of myths and stereotypes. In 'They Eat Horses, Don't They?', Piu Marie Eatwell explores the background to, and the contemporary evidence for, more than forty common myths.

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  • "The centuries-old, love-hate relationship between Britain and France has spawned a plethora of stereotypes. In recent years our stock of received wisdom about the French - land of the sophisticated lover and the wine-fuelled lunch - 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 colonized by Boden-clad Brits. THEY EAT HORSES, DON'T THEY? Piu Marie Eatwell explores the background to, and evidence for, 45 such myths. It finds that many of them are simply false, and that even those that are broadly true are more complicated than at first sight. In the course of the author's 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."
  • "The centuries-old, love-hate relationship between England and France has spawned a plethora of myths and stereotypes. In 'They Eat Horses, Don't They?', Piu Marie Eatwell explores the background to, and the contemporary evidence for, more than forty common myths."@en
  • ""Eatwell reveals the truth behind forty-five myths about the French, from the infamous horsemeat banquets of the nineteenth century that inspired an irrepressible rumor, to breaking down our long-held beliefs about French history and society (the French are a nation of cheese-eating surrender monkeys, right?)"--Dust jacket flap."
  • ""Eatwell reveals the truth behind forty-five myths about the French, from the infamous horsemeat banquets of the nineteenth century that inspired an irrepressible rumor, to breaking down our long-held beliefs about French history and society (the French are a nation of cheese-eating surrender monkeys, right?)"--Dust jacket flap."@en
  • "Truth, perhaps, is stranger than fiction ... In this short early preview of THEY EAT HORSES, DON'T THEY?, Piu Marie Eatwell explores the background to, and the contemporary evidence for, the idea that the French are voracious eaters of horse meat. We know that the French ate horses in the past, but do they still do so today? The age-old, love-hate relationship between Brits and Frogs has spawned many myths. In recent years our stock of received wisdom about France - land of the sophisticated lover and the wine-fuelled lunch - has been fed by a new generation of myths: nota."@en
  • "Myths about the French debunked with an entertaining, beautifully illustrated tour of French history, society, and culture like no otherSex. Smoking. Fashion. Film. Wine. Women. Painters. Poets. And of course, Paris. We may think we know it all, but what are the truths behind our idea of the French?Here Piu Marie Eatwell explores the background to, and the contemporary evidence for, 45 myths and misconceptions about the French. 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-a."@en

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