1000 years of annoying the French by Clarke, Stephen, 1958- instant download

1000 years of annoying the French by Clarke, Stephen, 1958- instant download

685 pages : 20 cm, \"Stephen Clarke takes a penetrating look into those murky depths, guiding us through all the times when Britain and France have been at war - or at least glowering at each other across the English Channel. Along the way he explodes a few myths that French historians have been trying to pass off as 'la vérité', as he proves that the French did not invent the baguette, or the croissant, or even the guillotine, and would have taken the bubbles out of bubbly if the Brits hadn't created a fashion for fizzy champagne. Starting with the Norman (not French) Conquest and going right up to the supposedly more peaceful present, when a state visit by French President Nicolas Sarkozy becomes a series of hilarious historical insults, it is impeccably researched - account of all our great fallings-out, Includes bibliographical references and index