The French
What makes the French FRENCH: A guide to understanding the French that explores the raison d’etre behind the Gallic facade with humour and style.

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Americans try to pronounce French
About the author
In fact, there are two authors:
Nick Yapp spent his first night in France in a barn near Calais docks in 1961. Since then he has loved the French for their music, wine, space, and 15 species of onions. When he sits outside a café in a small French town on a sunny day, sipping strong coffee, he feels he has made a success of his life. When he gets the bill and sees what this success has cost him, a little of the euphoria evaporates – but he returns the next day.
He used to be a teacher, but escaped to become a writer and broadcaster. In his dreams he lives in a villa on the cliffs south of Biarritz. In reality, he lives in a flat in south-east London.
Michel Syrett, French on his mother’s side, visits France regularly as a business commentator, lecturer and journalist. His French has benefited from eulogising in business circles about the perfect style with which the Nuits St. George cohabits with the fromage, while making an intellectual evaluation of the foie gras. He finds this a pleasure as, being French in his soul, he values food as a spiritual experience.