|-
50 Reasons to Hate the French
You always knew it was true but you couldn't be sure.
You always guessed it was something like this but never dared ask.
Now, for the first time ever, you can read the truth about our friends and cousins across the Channel, the French.
There's never been a book like it before. Fifty exhaustively researched, wittily written articles on France and Frenchness. It's all in here, from personal hygiene to French pop to Napoleon's shortcomings to Europe's tallest suicide magnet, the Eiffel Tower.
Want to know France's ten greatest military defeats? They're listed inside.
Want to know just how safe the Citroen 2CV is?
Inside.
Want to understand how Jean Paul Sartre used existentialism to prove that bathing was unnecessary?
Inside.
And every fact, quote and statistic inside it is absolutely true - or at least we found it somewhere relatively trustworthy.
Judge for yourself.
"50 REASONS TO HATE THE FRENCH" is everything you'll ever need to know - and be appalled to learn - about France.
What the critics are saying
“It was only periodically that I hated the French - until I read this ferociously researched and lethal book. Now, dammit, I have to love them on principle. I'll begin training for that arduous task beside a pool near St Tropez, sipping champagne, while Debussy wafts in the sunset…”
“Deliciously irreverent and provocative… Eden and Clarke skewer Gallic corruption, pretentiousness and self-regard, and slay the sacred cows of French life and culture, from suppository medicines to Sartre to the 2CV. Immensely valuable as a source of obscure information - such as how many glissandes ("slip-ups") requiring hospitalisation are caused each year in Paris by canine merde - their book is also riotously amusing… 50 Reasons to Hate the French?… Why so few?!? ”
