February 2011 Non-Fiction Book of the Month.
Ten centuries' worth of French historical 'facts' bite the dust as Stephen Clarke looks at what has really been going on since 1066... It's a light-hearted but impeccably researched account of all our great fallings-out. With Clarke's trademark humour and lightness of touch that will be remembered with fondness from A Year in the Merde and Talk to the Snail, among others this is a brilliant take on the history of our near neighbour.
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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 ...
From the Norman (not French) Conquest, to XXX, it is a light-hearted - but impeccably researched - account of all out great-fallings out.
In short, the French are quite right to suspect that the last 1,000 years have been one long British campaign to infuriate them. And it's not over yet...
1000 Years of Annoying the French features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, Books of the Month, History, Non-Fiction Books of the Month, eBooks of the Month, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Recommendations, History and Archaeology
1000 Years of Annoying the French is available in Paperback, Ebook
1000 Years of Annoying the French was written by Stephen Clarke and published by Black Swan an imprint of Transworld
1000 Years of Annoying the French has 760 pages
£10.79
