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How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People

WINNER OF THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE D`IDEES The French: serious and frivolous, charming and infuriating, rational and mystical, pessimistic, pleasure-loving – and perhaps more than any other people, intellectual. This original and entertaining book shows exactly what makes the French so …French.

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