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Cover of PARIS MATCH: falling in (love) with the french

PARIS MATCH: falling in (love) with the french

✍ Scribed by John von Sothen

Book ID
100600607
Publisher
PROFILE Books LTD
Year
2020
Tongue
English
Weight
182 KB
Category
Fiction
City
France--Paris., Paris (France
ISBN
1782836586

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

In Brooklyn, John von Sothen fell in love with AnaΓ―s, a French waitress. And then, one night in Paris, on the Pont Neuf, she agreed to marry him ("Bah, we can always get divorced!"). A couple of decades in, the two have become quatre, living in their beloved 10th arondissement with teenage kids who chat to their African neighbours in fluent Parisian slang, and John has even become kind of French himself. Well, he likes to think he has. The family still see him as an American innocent abroad.

Paris Match is one of those rare books that makes you laugh out loud, as von Sothen attempts to understand what makes the French tick. Why do they take such long holidays with friends who ration snacks and mock you for sleeping in; why do French men turn to him (an American!) for fashion tips; what really is the correct way to cut brie, and and how do you tell if you're being invited to a super-exclusive secret society of intellectuals or a weird sex club? John von Sothen has...

✦ Subjects

France -- Paris

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