50 Reasons to Hate the French

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name = 50 Reasons to Hate the French: VIve La Difference?
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image_caption = Cover of US edition
author = Jules Eden and Alex Clarke
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Humour
publisher = Quetzal Publishing
release_date = August 3, 2006
media_type = Print (Hardcover)
pages = 304 pp (first edition, hardcover)
isbn = ISBN 0-95534-670-3 (UK, first edition, hardcover)
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"50 Reasons to Hate the French: Vive La Difference?" is a humorous book by Jules Eden and Alex Clarke that takes an irreverent look at French politics, food, geography, business, and history, in order to draft reasons to hate the French and France. [ [http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20070916/FEATURES/709160799/1021/FEATURES02#more Herald Tribune: New Books] "Herald Tribune", September 15, 2007] Published in London on August 3 2006 by Quetzal Publishing, it has since been released in the USA by Ivan R. Dee.

In the introduction the authors write, [Eden, Jules and Clarke, Alex. " [http://www.50reasonstohatethefrench.com/introduction.php 50 Reasons to Hate French: Vive La Difference?] " (2006) Quetzal Publishing ISBN 0955346703. Courtesy link to introduction on book's website] quote|For all the magnificence of the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe, for all the cultural joy of Debussy and Cezanne, for all the achievements of Joan of Arc and Napoleon, there just "is" something fishy about the French.

Chapter List

# French Charm; Where Did it All Go Wrong?
# The Tower of Psychobabble; The Point of the Eiffel Tower
# The Quasimodo of Pop; Serge Gainsbourg and French Rock
# Asterix vs. Ronald McDonald; Jose Bove vs. American Food
# Music with Menaces; France's Blood Curdling Signature Tune
# The Scent of a Nation; Vive Pepe lePew!
# The Pain in the Neck; De Gaulle and the Strategy of Ingratitude
# Mean Time; Why France Is Retarded by Nine Minutes and Twenty-One Seconds
# Cutting the Cheese; The Favorite Nibble of the Surrender Monkeys
# Old Wells of Hatred; Anti-Semitism in France
# Thin Ice; The 2002 Winter Olympics and the Biggest Scandal Ever to Hit...Figure Skating?
# Paris When it Sizzles; The 2003 Heat Wave and France's State Health Service
# Sade but True; Whipping France's Intellectuals into a Frenzy
# French Women Don't Get Fat; No, They're Addicted, Anorexic and Anxious
# The Permanent War; Milestones of an Anti-American Chronology
# 90 Minutes Silence; The Meaningless Films of Jean-Luc Godard
# The Way to Rusty Death; The 2CV and French Drivers
# Who Needs Enemas?; Why the French Are the World's Largest "Consumers" of Suppositories
# Wheels on Fire; Why the Tour de France Is Fuelled by More than Testosterone
# Patently Wrong; Are the Great Inventions of the World French?
# The Little Corporal; The Man who Invented the Napoleon Complex
# The Devil's Own Cowpat; The Curse of the Beret
# Blown Away; Chirac, Muroroa and Nuclear Tests
# The Cohabitee; Edith Cresson: "She's Not Really Corrupt"
# Le Roi du Crazy; Jerry Lewis and French Humor
# The Duck Stops Here; Arnold Schwarzenegger Tells the French to Get Stuffed
# The Smell of Victory; Did You Mean "French Military Defeats"?
# Stinking From the Top; Corruption in the Bostwana of Europe
# France's Internet; Minitel--the 2CV of Information Technology
# The Dirty Dogs; The French and Their Dogs
# The Indochina Syndrome; Imperial Meltdown at Dien Bien Phu
# Too Many Cooks; A Guided Tour to French Cuisine
# O-Chirac; Too Close to Iraq?
# The Cavalry of Sodom vs. the Pornographic Pig; The Dreyfus Affair
# The Horrifying Fraud; Why the French Think the U.S. Was behind 9/11
# Tick Tick Tick; Countdown to Murder in the South Pacific
# Bad Faith; Why Hell is Jean-Paul Sartre
# The Nobelest Profession; Hell is Other Writers
# The Arrow...; France's Flights of Fancy No. 1: Concorde
# ...And the Elephant; France's Flights of Fancy No. 2: The Airbus A380
# Not Tonight Josephine; Are the French Losing Interest in Sex?
# The Crucifixion of Alain Heirtoghe; France's Unfree Press
# Secrets of the Sphinx; The Secret Life of Francois Mitterrand
# The Forbidden Scarf; The Blazing Riots of 2005
# Spitting in the Soup; Seven Truths About French Wine
# France's Fruit Machine; The E.U. and the Common Agricultural Society
# The Holocaust to Liberty; The French Revolution and "The Terror"
# Enarques; Masters of le Grand Oral
# Perfidious Albion Non Plus; France Faces Facts about Its Neighbor
# Senator-For-Life; Chirac's "Get Out of Jail Free" Card

References

External links

* [http://www.50reasonstohatethefrench.com/ 50 Reasons to Hate the French official site]
* [http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/waugh_11_06.html Review] by Alexander Waugh in Literary Review