France: A Nation on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
- ISBN-10
- 1783340843
- ISBN-13
- 9781783340842
- Series
- France
- Category
- British
- Pages
- 283
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-10
- Author
- Jonathan Miller
Description
Jonathan Miller is a British journalist who moved with his wife and two children to the picturesque village of Caux, in the Languedoc coastal region of France, in 2000. In 2014, he was elected a local councillor to the village. This is his declaration on the state of everything that is annoying about beautiful France, including for good measure how the French are failing to save what is good about the place. It may cost him his councillorship, but at least he will have spoken the truth!
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