1000 Years of Annoying the French

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He recounts trips to Crecy and Azincourt (not Agincourt which is hundreds of miles away from the true battle site - with the z) and paints a less than glowing picture of Joan of Arc, religious zealot and manipulative egomaniac. I enjoy reading historical works and this one has an abundance of information, as well as an eye and ear for the humor in the characters and their actions.

The novel was an instant success and has led to numerous follow-ups, including Dial M for Merde (2008), 1,000 Years of Annoying the French (2010), and Paris Revealed (2011). I could go on stating the other way that the Guernsey resistance did a terrible job on blowing up railways (do they have a railway there?You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Ten centuries' worth of French historical 'facts' bite the dust as Stephen Clarke looks at what has really been going on since 1066 . The list is long because it being tongue in cheek, “1,000 Years” depicts a France that has nothing to be proud of. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Many things traditionally thought of as French, such as the guillotine, champagne and William of Normandy, were not French. Combined with Clarke’s hilarious writing I would gladly advise it to anybody who wants to have an amusing look on the interaction between two European powers. That may be so, but unless Guillotine used this Halifax for his own design, I don’t really see the point.

It's also very informative, although not necessarily in the manner of a traditional history book, with several rather obscure historical events being focused upon.

At times the book suffers from this kind of reasoning, but these are rather spots on a further well-investigated book. A millennium which shows that no matter the country, history is mostly about greed and back stabbing, which translates into political/economical alliances or in medieval times, marrying into another kingdom to increase one’s land and domination. Bardzo zabawna i pouczająca książka, która pozwoli Wam zrozumieć skomplikowane relacje polityczne i kulturowe pomiędzy dwoma państwami, jak również - przez pryzmat omówionego tu "tysiąclecia" - pomoże zyskać lepszy ogląd na najświeższe wydarzenia zachodzące w Wielkiej Brytanii i na kontynencie. Images of dramatic encounters with les Français flashed before my eyes, until it got me to the point that I could identify the main cause: a traumatic experience from my childhood in which an extremely fat monsieur shouted at me for not having a ticket for the carousel.This book should be required reading for anyone who wants a better understanding of the history that exists between England and France - and essential for anyone who collects fascinating trivia. That’s something that I do feel could have at least been mentioned a bit more clearly, to balance things out, instead of focusing so much on what the French did wrong. Filled with a lot of facts that I didn't really know about - although a lot of the De Gaulle stuff I did and it turns out, he was not a very likeable man of whom even a number of his own countrymen think the same. Ten centuries’ worth of similar French historical “facts” bite the dust – as Stephen Clarke proves, the French didn’t invent the baguette, the croissant or the guillotine, and would have taken the bubbles out of bubbly if the Brits hadn’t created a fashion for fizzy Champagne.