1000 Years Of Annoying The French
Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? Non! William the Conqueror was 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...
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Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? Non! William the Conqueror was 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...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780552775748 (0552775746)
Publish date: January 20th 2011
Publisher: Black Swan
Pages no: 688
Edition language: English
Mam pewien problem z tą książką, a mianowicie taki, że niespecjalnie pasuje mi sposób pisania Stephena Clarke'a. Antyfrancuskie żarciki, którymi nafaszerowana jest narracja, wydawały mi się wymuszone i niezbyt zabawne, choć oczywiście w zamierzeniu autora miały zapewnić lekką lekturę. Pal licho jedn...
Could anything be more fun? Someone wrote in their review for 1000 years of annoying the French that you don't need to be British or hate the French in order to like this book. I totally agree. I enjoyed it, being Dutch, because I also always like the way British and French people mock each other....
Bardzo ciekawa podróż przez historię. Ciekawie i z humorem ukazana panorama relacji miedzy sąsiadami mającymi tendencję do megalomanii. Spora dawka humoru i jeszcze większa ciekawostek historycznych. Taka historia na wesoło.
Strapline : The English Channel may be only twenty miles wide but it's a thousand years deep.After the also-ran entries on the cards this week at last a reprieve - can't go wrong with this one. You could be forgiven in thinking this must be a zenophobic rant given the title but it is more a gentle j...
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