The Irish writer Hannah Lynch, long resident in France, explains the French to English readers. She contrasts the political furnace of Paris with the sleepy provinces, then covers social diversions and distinctions, the army and the nation, secular and religious schooling, national institutions such as the Académie, home life, and the peasant and artisan.
A shrewd, readable portrait of France at the turn of the century for travellers and Francophiles. Download the free EPUB.