How the French Think

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Imprint: Penguin
Published: 30/06/2016
ISBN: 9780241961063
Length: 448 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 26mm x 129mm
Weight: 338g
RRP: £9.99

WINNER OF THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE D'IDÉES

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.

Imprint: Penguin
Published: 30/06/2016
ISBN: 9780241961063
Length: 448 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 26mm x 129mm
Weight: 338g
RRP: £9.99

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There could be no wiser or more witty guide to the problems of France today.

Times Literary Supplement

Sudhir Hazareesingh

Sudhir Hazareesingh was born in Mauritius. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has been a Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Balliol College, Oxford, since 1990. Among his books are The Legend of Napoleon, Le Mythe Gaullien and How the French Think. He won the Prix du Mémorial d'Ajaccio and the Prix de la Fondation Napoléon for the first of these, and a Prix d'Histoire du Sénat for the second.