1000 Years of Annoying the French
Douban
ISBN: 9780593062722
author:
Stephen Clarke
publishing house:
Bantam Press
publication date: 2010
-3
price: GBP 16.99
number of pages: 560
Stephen Clarke
overview
Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? No! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc? No! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers. Was the guillotine a French invention? No! It was invented in Yorkshire. Ten centuries' worth of French historical 'facts' bite the dust as Stephen Clarke looks at what has really been going on since 1066.