本英汉对照读物通过民族性和特性、性格、行为、健康与卫生、系统、癖好、言谈和手势、休闲与娱乐、幽默感、文化、饮食文化等方面，全方位的向广大读者介绍了法国人的相关信息。

Nationalism and Identity

Forewarned

The French care about what really matters in life-being French. They are convinced of their corporate, moral and individual superiority over all others in the world. Their charm is that they dont despise the rest of us: they pity us for not being French.

The notion of‘la force’lies at the heart of everything the French have done, well or badly, in the last thousand years or more. La force is their sense of the essence of life. It is bound up with other grand ideas such as‘la gloire’, and‘la patrie’, feminine words that speak of boundless stores of energy.

The French are attracted to all things vibrant, alive, moving, irresistible. Beneath their chic and natty appearances they respond to atavistic and primitive impulses.

民族性和特性

忠告

法国人一生中最得意的就是——生为法国人。他们确信自己，无论群体、精神和个体都优于世界上所有的其他民族。他们的可爱之处在于他们并没有蔑视我们这些其余的人：他们怜悯我们无缘生为法国人。

最近的一千多年以来，法国人的所作所为，无论好歹，都与“力量”二字紧密相连。力量是他们对生命本质的感受。与其他伟大的思想如“光荣”、“祖车”完全一致，这些阴性名词的发音都充满了力量。

法国人热衷于一切令人震撼的、热闹的、动人的、诱人的事情。在他们那潇洒敏捷的外表里面，涌动着返祖性的原始冲动。

1961年，在加莱附近的一个干草仓里，他度过了到法国后的第一个夜晚。