Annoying The French Encore!

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<p><b>A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR</b></p><p><i>Bonjour cher</i>reader,</p><p>Ever since European history began, we Brits have been happily engaged in our national pastime - annoying the French. And the past couple of years have shown that this annoying never stops. To give just three examples:</p><p>After a mid-Atlantic collision between French and British nuclear submarines, France's Minister of Defence seemed to blame the accident on ... shrimps.</p><p>When French political superstar Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested in New York, France's establishment was outraged. It soon emerged that sexual harassment was regarded as a basic human right by the country's male élite. (This theme provided so much excellent material that I decided to include it in the plot of my soon-to-be published novel,<i>The Merde Factor</i>.)</p><p>And when David Cameron walked out of a Eurosummit, a French politician accused him of being 'like a man at a wife-swapping party who refuses to bring his own wife.' Yes, a very French image, and it just one of the many anti-<i>Anglais</i>insults that came flying across the Channel.</p><p>You will find all this, and much more, in<b>Annoying the French Encore!</b>Because, for the French, the<i>merde</i>never ends.</p><p>Yours historically,</p><p><i>Stephen Clarke,</i>Paris, August 2012</p> <p>Tremendously entertaining<i>Sunday Times</i> Relentlessly and energetically rude<i>Mail on Sunday</i></p>

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<p><b>Stephen Clarke</b>lives in Paris, where he divides his time between writing and not writing.</p><p>His<i>Merde</i>novels have been bestsellers all over the world, including France. His non-fiction books include<i>Talk to the Snail</i>, an insider's guide to understanding the French;<i>How the French Won Waterloo (or Think They Did)</i>, an amused look at France's continuing obsession with Napoleon;<i>Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France</i>, a biography of Edward VII; and<i>1000 Years of Annoying the French</i>, which was a number one bestseller in Britain.</p><p>Research for<i>The French Revolution and What Went Wrong</i>took him deep into French archives in search of the actual words, thoughts and deeds of the revolutionaries and royalists of 1789. He has now re-emerged to ask modern Parisians why they have forgotten some of the true democratic heroes of the period, and opted to idolize certain maniacs.</p><p>Follow Stephen on @SClarkeWriter and www.stephenclarkewriter.com</p>

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