1000 Years of Annoying the French - Couverture souple

Clarke, Stephen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0552775746 ISBN 13 : 9780552775748

Editeur : Black Swan, 2011

Synopsis

RO60123720. 1000 YEARS OF ANNOYING THE FRENCH. 2011. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement pliée, Dos plié, Intérieur acceptable. 685 pages. Illustré de cartes en noir et blanc dans le texte. Nombreuses annotations en page de titre (ex-dono).. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Stephen Clarke lives in Paris, where he divides his time between writing and not writing. His first novel, A Year in the Merde, originally became a word-of-mouth hit in 2004, and is now published all over the world. Since then he has published three more bestselling Merde novels, as well as Talk to the Snail, an indispensable guide to understanding the French.

Research for Stephen's novels has taken him all over France and America. For 1000 Years of Annoying the French, he has also been breathing the chill air of ruined castles and deserted battlefields, leafing through dusty chronicles, brushing up the medieval French he studied at university and generally losing himself in the mists of history. He has now returned to present-day Paris, and is doing his best to live the entente cordiale.

Quatrième de couverture :

Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory?
Non! William the Conqueror was a Norman and hated the French.

Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc?
Non! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers.

Was the guillotine a French invention?
Non! It was invented in Yorkshire.

Ten centuries' worth of French historical 'facts' bite the dust as Stephen Clarke looks at what has really been going on since 1066...

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Black Swan
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0552775746
• ISBN 13: 9780552775748
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 688