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''50 Reasons to Hate the French: Vive La Difference?'' is a humorous book by Jules Eden and Alex Clarke that takes an irreverent look at French politics, food, geography, business, and history, in order to delineate just what makes France so "exceptionnel".〔(Herald Tribune: New Books ) ''Herald Tribune'', September 15, 2007〕 Published in London on August 3, 2006 by Quetzal Publishing, it has since been released in the USA by Ivan R. Dee. In the introduction the authors write,〔Eden, Jules and Clarke, Alex. ''(50 Reasons to Hate French: Vive La Difference? )'' (2006) Quetzal Publishing ISBN 0-9553467-0-3. Courtesy link to introduction on book's website〕 Featuring lack of historical reliability, the book has to be taken at the second degree. For example to justify that French always lose the authors consider American war of independence as a "mutual defeat".〔()〕 In another argument French actress Marguerite Josephine Weimer is supposed to have said according to the authors "beaucoup le plus fort" when this sentence is grammatically incorrect in French and is a serious error of language, the quote has undoubtedly been invented by a non-French person. The books is arranged into fifty chapters, each one examining some aspect of France from politics to sports to cuisine to history to pop music. While this is a book of journalistic humour, the authors substantiate their views throughout with tables, facts and quotes. Writing in The Literary Review of April 2006, critic Alexander Waugh described the book: ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「50 Reasons to Hate the French」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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