Book description
Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory?
Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French.
Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc?
Non! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers.
Was the guillotine a French invention?
Non! 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. His first novel,
A Year in the Merde
, 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.
