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Something to declare : essays on France /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barnes, Julian
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Knopf, [2002]
Edition:1st American ed.
Subjects:
France > Civilization.
France > Intellectual life.
Popular culture > France.
French literature > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • An Englishman abroad
  • Spending their deaths on holiday
  • The promises of their ordination
  • The land without Brussels sprouts
  • Tour de France 1907
  • Tour de France 2000
  • The pouncer
  • French letters
  • Flaubert's death-masks
  • Not drowning but waving : the case of Louise Colet
  • Drinking ink
  • Two moles
  • Consolation v. desolation
  • Tail-flaying
  • The cost of conscientious literature
  • Faithful betrayal
  • Justin : a small major character.