Very often, I hear people suggest that French cuisine, French fashion, and French art are the best of their kind. French restaurants are often the most expensive, and many people see having a separate residence in France as a sign of high status (relative to having a separate residence in any other country).
What explains this? Why are "French" and "sophisticated" or "cultured" so closely entertwined, even now that France is no longer the world power it once was?
2006-07-23
12:26:18
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timm1776
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