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1000 Years of Annoying the French Book

Edition Black Swan, First Impression, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-552-77574-8. PAPERBACK. 686 pages, size: 12.8 x 19.6 x 4.5 cm. Just light tanning to paper edges. Other than that, the new and unread book remains in very good conditions throughout. Text all clean, neat and tight. Prompt dispatch from UK.Read More

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  • TheBookPeople

    This is a new updated edition. Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc? Non! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers. Did the French write God Save the Queen? Non! But that's what they claim. Ten centuries' worth of French historical 'facts' bite the dust as Stephen Clarke looks at what has really been going on since 1066...It features new annoyances - both historical and recent - inflicted on the French, including Napoleon's banned chamber pot, Louis XIV's painful operation, Anglo-French jibes during the 2012 London Olympics, French niggles about William and Kate's royal wedding, and much more ...

  • Foyles

    Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory?Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French.Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc?Non! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers.Was the guillotine a French invention?Non! It was invented in Yorkshire.Ten centuries' worth of French historical 'facts' bite the dust as Stephen Clarke looks at what has really been going on since 1066 ...From the Norman (not French) Conquest, to XXX, it is a light-hearted - but impeccably researched - account of all out great-fallings out.In short, the French are quite right to suspect that the last 1,000 years have been one long British campaign to infuriate them. And it's not over yet...

  • BookDepository

    1000 Years of Annoying the French : Paperback : Transworld Publishers Ltd : 9780552779937 : 0552779938 : 07 May 2015 : Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. This title features new annoyances inflicted on the French, including Napoleon's banned chamber pot, Louis XIV's painful operation, Anglo-French jibes during the 2012 London Olympics, and, French niggles about William and Kate's royal wedding.

  • 0552779938
  • 9780552779937
  • Stephen Clarke
  • 7 May 2015
  • Black Swan
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 768
  • Completely revised, updated and expanded edition
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