Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? No! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc? No! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers. Was the guillotine a French invention? No! It was invented in Yorkshire. Ten centuries' worth of French historical 'facts' bite the dust as Stephen Clar...
Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? No! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc? No! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers. Was the guillotine a French invention? No! 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.
Stephen Clarke lives in Paris, where he divides his time between writing and not writing. His first novel, A Year in the Merde, originally became a word-of-mouth hit in 2004, and is now published all over the world. Since then he has published three more bestselling Merde novels, as well as Talk to the Snail, an indispensable guide to understanding the French. Research for Step...
Stephen Clarke lives in Paris, where he divides his time between writing and not writing. His first novel, A Year in the Merde, originally became a word-of-mouth hit in 2004, and is now published all over the world. Since then he has published three more bestselling Merde novels, as well as Talk to the Snail, an indispensable guide to understanding the French. Research for Stephen's novels has taken him all over France and America. For 1000 Years of Annoying the French, he has also been breathing the chill air of ruined castles and deserted battlefields, leafing through dusty chronicles, brushing up the medieval French he studied at university and generally losing himself in the mists of history. He has now returned to present-day Paris, and is doing his best to live the entente cordiale. For more information about Stephen Clarke and his books, visit his website: www.stephenclarkewriter.com
...why is there such a love–hate relationship between the French and the Brits?
The love is easy to explain: despite what we might say in public, we find each other irresistibly sexy. The hate is more of a problem. For a start, it’s mistrust rather than hatred. But why is it even there, in these days of Entente Cordiale and European peace? (查看原文)
斯蒂芬·克拉克(StephenClarke)曾于2010年出版1000 Years of Annoying the French,称要以破坏法国核心历史记忆的方式——在此之前,法国人们的历史认知否认其侵占过英格兰——开篇,论述英国与法国千年来的“血海深仇”。2021年,中译本《英法千年争斗史》出版。不同的是,中...
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0 有用 TomatoDai 2015-02-15 00:52:42
满满的恶意,哈哈哈
0 有用 范槁 2011-08-13 23:34:58
英國人真係正宗仆街仔黎....哈哈
0 有用 Una Poetisa 2010-09-14 07:10:06
读了一个多月。。
0 有用 寺桃 2011-02-23 06:36:25
很风趣,让人会心一笑,非哈哈大笑。
0 有用 Elliott Joe 2012-02-06 13:52:33
虽然有点扭曲法国的历史,但是作为也是来看还是很耐读的,语言很生动,戏谑的口吻很到位