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Fragile Glory: A Portrait of France and the French
Fragile Glory A Portrait of France and the French Author:Richard Bernstein France. A place. A people. A language. A richly varied countryside of deep-rooted traditions and closed-in lives. A charismatic capital on the cutting edge of all that is new in style and thought. A power long past its peak. A high-tech pace setter. A melange of pride, generosity, economy, devotion to the intellect, and love of the sensuous. A s... more »avoir faire that has transformed fashion, lifestyle, food, and sex into elegant and highly enjoyable art.
Combining personal memoir, informed observation, and newshound curiosity, Richard Bernstein, former Paris bureau chief of The New York Times, has written a marvelously entertaining guide to France and the French as they are today -- in all their diversity, contradictions, and near mystical unity. His book is wise, witty, worldly, knowing, superbly humane, In short, it is worthy of its subject.« less
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