Titlebook: Mastering French 2; E. J. Neather Textbook 1985Latest edition Macmillan Publishers Limited 1985 design.French.knowledge

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Le Caractère Fran?aisZeldin’s book on the French effectively dismisses some of the clichés, but does that mean that such clichés will just go away? For good or ill, ‘le syndrome du béret basque’ and other such folk-myths will no doubt remain with us for quite a long time.

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Les Fran?ais Qui Consommentcent years, the hypermarket seems to have become as big an attraction for the visitor, and to be just as characteristically French in its own way. The following pair of texts present aspects of these two very different sides of shopping in France.

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Le Pays de Francey express a pride in France, gentle in the case of Duhamel, grandiose and intransigent in the case of de Gaulle, but a pride which emerges strongly in other passages included in this book, notably in Aragon’s poem ‘Je vous salue ma France’.

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La Famille extraordinaire désarroi des sociétés industrielles. Perhaps the picture of change and disarray is not wholly gloomy, however, if grandparents are, after all, able to find a role as suggested in the second passage here.

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Jeunes et Vieuxhe apathy of the current generation of young people. If the opinions expressed here are representative, one might well ask what has happened to the political demonstrations of the generation that was young in 1968.

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La France Administrativel published in . gives some interesting figures concerning the current attitudes of the French towards the state. Finally, there is a passage which gives more detail about one aspect of the great state machine, the process of voting.

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