Book description
The English have always regarded the French with a passionate
mixture of love and hatred. Simultaneously divided and linked by the
English Channel - or la Manche - both countries continue profoundly to
affect the other for good or ill. In his delightfully impressionistic
appreciation of Britain's closest neighbour, first published in 1987,
'unashamed Francophile' Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson separates
cliché from fallacy to reveal the essence of France and the French. 'A
book which will have a considerable appeal for all those who love
France; for in Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson they will meet a kindred
spirit...' Financial Times 'Whets the reader's appetite for the next
visit across the Channel.' Evening Standard 'Urbane and charming.' Times
Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson was born in 1939, and educated at Eton
and St. John's, Cambridge. He has been an author (Faber Finds is
reissuing Inglorious Rebellion, Blood Royal and That Sweet Enemy),
publisher and is now a literary agent.
