I am indebted to "La France Profonde" for bringing the wonderful Bill Maher article about the French to my attention. Well, more like how Americans have got it all wrong about the French, as most of their best ideas came from France.
"The American ideas of individuality, religious tolerance and freedom of speech came directly out of the French Enlightenment—but, shhh, don't tell Alabama... (The French) have weird ideas about privacy. They think it should be private. In France, everyone has a mistress. Even mistresses have mistresses. To not have a lady on the side says to the voters, "I'm no good at multitasking."
Hehe.
Wasn't that fantastic?
I love this rant.
"As for the French conservative candidate, he's married but he and his wife live apart and lead separate lives. They aren't asked about it in the media, and the people are OK with it, for the same reason the people are OK with nude beaches: because they're not a nation of 6-year-olds who scream and giggle if they see pee-pee parts."
Posted by: loulou | June 19, 2007 at 06:59 AM
Me too - I think that is my favourite extract!
Posted by: roger | June 19, 2007 at 10:33 PM