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 delineate just what makes France so "exceptionnel".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 United States by Ivan R. Dee.
In the introduction the authors write,Eden, Jules and Clarke, Alex. 50 Reasons to Hate French: Vive La Difference? (2006) Quetzal Publishing . Courtesy link to introduction on book's website
The book is arranged into fifty chapters, each one examining some aspect of France from politics to sports to cuisine to history to pop music. While this is a book of jourmalistic humour, the authors substamtiate their views throughout with tables, facts and quotes.
Writing in The Literary Review of April 2006, critic Alexander Waugh described the book:
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