a light book read during the holidays. But I stayed on my hunger. I expected more in the discovery of France "picturesque": in fact it attends the cocktail meetings in private hotels in Neuilly, a weekend in castles and holiday home. Even for a short depaysant french ;-) Amusing but finally, the author is all the same in a fallen world that is alien to many french. Difficult to make a book about a culture without falling into the "baguette beret" or in the "auteuil neuilly" Rather I recommend the excellent book french coronations Stanger: humor and occasionally we suprend to think hell but we are really like that?