1000 Years of Annoying the French

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However, I liked how the book was split into sections and the actual information was very readable as well. In 2004, he self-published A Year in the Merde, a comic novel skewering contemporary French society. From William the Conqueror right up to almost the modern day, history appears to be littered with things that the French blame us for when they actually had themselves to blame or, there's been a twisting of the truth. In short, the French are quite right to suspect that the last 1,000 years have been one long British campaign to infuriate them.

After working as a journalist for a French press group for ten years, Paris-based Clarke now has a regular spot on French cable TV, poking fun at French culture. In it they will find a full supply of delightful anecdotes, giving them all the amunitions they need to silence the arrogant French. Also, they've always been hospitable too when I've socialised with them except maybe in Marseille so I can't berate them for much. I enjoyed it and laughed out loud fairly frequently, but it's definitely more of a comedy routine than a true historical resource.Not sure I'd ever have cause to re-read it, hence not 5 stars, but I'd definitely recommend it to friends, hence not 3 stars.

A whole country being invaded by their ‘archenemy’ or a few islands that were given up with some shoulder shrugging, well sentiment could be a bit different, don’t you think? It’s pretty comprehensive, coming in at just under 650 pages, and it’s not all as good as the rest of it.To give the simplest of examples – go into the British Embassy in Paris, and what do you see in the first anteroom you enter?