L'auteur en quelques mots...
Louis-Bernard Robitaille is a fixture among Paris correspondents of North American newspapers.
Eyeing the French since 1966 for the Montreal daily " La Presse ", he has written on just about every conceivable aspect of French life, and no one knows France better. In this best-seller on two continents which has been called " A first-class anatomy of French life " (The Globe and Mail, Toronto) and "A biting, loving, and wonderfully knowledgeable insiders guide to Parisians" (Pierre Salinger) is a treasure trove of biting, satirical and bang-on pieces on anything and everything from Louis XVI to Charles de Gaulle, from EuroDisneyland to the French schizoid view of money, from Catherine Deneuve to Céline Dion.
As the France-Inter radio network said, it is "clairvoyant, penetrating writing by a real journalist."