A French Affair: The Paris Beat, 1965-1998

Mary Blume, illustrated by Ronald Searle

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Chosen from thirty years of Mary Blume's famous column in the International Herald Tribune, these lively articles, interviews and literary essays chronicle the idiosyncrasies of life in France.  Written in the witty and economical tradition of the great American columnists of the 1920s and '30s, her pieces explore the quintessence of Frenchness, its history, its obsession with food and clothes, its snobbery and its charm.  An excellent bedside book for Francophiles. - review by John Wyse Jackson (Seán)