"I hit the nail on the head really when it came to being a foreigner in France," he says. "There's lots of idioms here and the idiots as well." In English, we might say that guy is the village idiot. But in French, it's called the ambisille, that the happy imbecile. 'That's much nicer in a way, isn't it? That's a lot more positive'

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