France has been a land of inspiration for history's great writers. Covering the world as a foreign correspondent is basy about listening to people, trying to understand them as they see the world. To gertrude stein, there are te two sides to a frenchman, logic and fashion.
The flood of people out of cities is unlike anything since the suburbanisation of the 1950s; we examine the inevitable economic and political consequences. After years of reporting our correspondent concludes that the mutual disdain of a country’s northern and southern halves is a curious human universal. And a sojourn to fact-check Julius Caesar’s accounts of his triumphs in France.
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