Parisians in the Country

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His magnum opus was a sequence of almost novels and plays collectively entitled La Comedie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte in Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature.

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Parisians in the Country by Honoré de Balzac

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Parisians in the Country by Honoré de Balzac

The popular image of the French in the eyes of foreigners is the Parisian: Katie Warren asks are the Parisians really representative of French people? If you've spent much time in France you'll agree that they're definitely not. Arrogance A survey in found that the Brits think the French were the most arrogant people in Europe and more to the point the French who were polled came to the same conclusion.

But take a train outside Paris and you'll soon notice the weight gain. Speed One reason Parisians don't have time for casual chats is because they're so fast. AFP Despite France's traditional Catholic conservatism and the rise of the extreme right in some areas, Parisians have a tendency to be more liberal than the rest of the country. Working habits Although France has a reputation for its leisurely lunches and light working week, the manic working lives of New Yorkers and Londoners are starting to spread to Paris.

Alex Proimos One of the most pervasive stereotypes of the French is that they're moody.

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Switch to new thesaurus. French person , Frenchman , Frenchwoman - a person of French nationality. References in classic literature? At Bredin's Parisian Cafe and Restaurant in Soho, where Paul worked, there were none of these things; and Paul himself, though he certainly moved swiftly, was by no means noiseless. For she was a Carlist, and of Basque blood at that, with something of a lioness in the expression of her courageous face especially when she let her hair down , and with the volatile little soul of a sparrow dressed in fine Parisian feathers, which had the trick of coming off disconcertingly at unexpected moments.

I could now well distinguish the difference between the fine and pure Parisian utterance of M.

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