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Title: Savoir-Flair: 211 Tips for Enjoying France and the French by Polly Platt, Ande Grchich ISBN: 0-9646684-1-6 Publisher: Distribooks Intl Pub. Date: June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: My new best friend!
Comment: Francophiles of the world, listen up. Want to go to France for any reason, for any length of time and not feel awkward and anxious and like your savoir faire is about at toddler level? For many travelers not knowing how to negotiate the small things (catching a bus, using the subway, knowing how to use the security code plaque at someone's front door) can seriously diminish the pleasure of being abroad. Help is at hand in the form of Polly Platt's Savoir Flair; 211 Tips for Enjoying France and the French. This book has more incredible and truly useful information packed into one paragraph than any two popular guidebooks combined. I can't say enough about this jewel. Polly Platt has thought through every conceivable situation the traveler might face, from the moment of landing at Charles de Gaulle or Orly airport to what to do if you drop your keys down a grate in the sidewalk. With utmost patience, specificity, knowledge and humor she tells you everything you need to know (including things you didn't even know to wonder about!) for a smooth and happy experience in France. Platt is an American who has lived in Paris since 1967 so she knows exactly whereof she speaks. She is the founder and director of Culture Crossings, a training organization for corporate employees and their families who have been transferred to France. She has written an earlier book, French or Foe, aimed more at the latter audience, though I read it and found it helpful for the traveler.
Still, there is nothing like Savoir Flair anywhere. I pity people going to Rome or Turkey or Berlin or Sri Lanka who have to make do with standard quidebooks. (As far as I know Polly Platt has not been cloned in other languages and cultures!) This book is my new best friend. Buy it and you will see what I mean!
Rating: 5
Summary: A must read before you travel to France
Comment: After reading this book and using it's suggestions my wife and I experienced the trip of a lifetime. We had a beautiful honeymoon traveling throughout France. We experienced not the steriotypical rude French, but a wonderful and friendly people. Just try to speak French and remember to be patient and let the salespeople show you their goods and you'll endear yourself the French. They will bend over backwards for you - Bravo Polly Platt!!! P.S. To the person who reviewed this as a racist book: My wife was followed for several blocks and nearly accosted by a man in the Arab Quarter (fortunately she found a police man) It may not happen every day - but it definately happens! The rest of Paris was wonderful!
Rating: 2
Summary: Tips for Enjoying Paris
Comment: I bought this book with high hopes and found it enjoyable. The writing is fun and whets your appetite for your trip to France.
However, just about every chapter in the book is specifically geared toward Paris. There are all kinds of wonderful tips about place to go and things to see - in Paris. I'm not going to Paris.
Perhaps Ms. Platt's tips on behavior are probably applicable all over France, but perhaps not. I mean, do you go about things in the same way in Seattle as you do in New York? In a book subtitled "211 Tips for Enjoying France and the French", I expected more information about the rest of the country.
Change the subtitle to "211 Tips for Enjoying Paris and the Parisians" and I'd give it 5 stars.
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Title: French or Foe?: Getting the Most Out of Visiting, Living and Working in France by Polly Platt ISBN: 0964668424 Publisher: Distribooks Intl Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France but Not the French by Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie Barlow ISBN: 1402200455 Publisher: Sourcebooks Trade Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Au Contraire! Figuring Out The French by Gilles Asselin, Ruth Mastron ISBN: 187786482X Publisher: Intercultural Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: French Toast : An American in Paris Celebrates the Maddening Mysteries of the French by Harriet Welty Rochefort ISBN: 0312199783 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Cultural Misunderstandings: The French-American Experience by Raymonde Carroll, Carol Volk ISBN: 0226094987 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: April, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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