A wonderful book

I've made a truly wonderful discovery, thanks to bigshot reviewers in
the Times and NYRB who discovered it first: "The Discovery of France"
by historian Graham Robb. It's fantastic, in many senses of the word,
and also very, very *funny*. Prepare to have some odd things suddenly
make sense -- like, why the French are so damn prissy and protective
about their language (hint: according to Robb, it has not even yet
completely replaced the thousands of dialects spoken over the entire
country until very recently).

C

Crowfoot wrote:
> I've made a truly wonderful discovery, thanks to bigshot reviewers in
> the Times and NYRB who discovered it first: "The Discovery of France"
> by historian Graham Robb. It's fantastic, in many senses of the word,
> and also very, very *funny*. Prepare to have some odd things suddenly
> make sense -- like, why the French are so damn prissy and protective
> about their language (hint: according to Robb, it has not even yet
> completely replaced the thousands of dialects spoken over the entire
> country until very recently).

And now the EU has ordered them to stop persecuting minority languages.


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John W. Kennedy
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