‘There is no law in France, it turns out, against the improvement of clocks.’

‘[CRAV] is a French group of radical wine producers. It has claimed responsibility for numerous attacks including dynamiting grocery stores, a winery, the agriculture ministry offices in two cities, burning a car at another, hijacking a tanker, and destroying large quantities of non-French wine.’

How the small producers defeated a major producer to keep producing Camembert from raw milk.

No one should run Windows. Especially not the military.

Nutella has a different consistency when sold in France compared to that available in Germany.

Can I buy it for a Euro and put the entire population to work on my nefarious schemes?

‘In France, exposed brake cables remained popular longer than elsewhere, because French cyclists sometimes like to transport baguettes home from the boulangerie by resting them crosswise across the brake hoods.’

Japanese visitors like the idea of Paris, but are disturbed when they find it’s full of French people.