François Théodore Thistlethwaite's FRENGLISH THOUGHTS

The product of his parents' ferociously antagonistic genes, François Théodore Thistlethwaite is a split-identity 'Frenglishman', born of an English father and French mother. Any one of his three alter egos - the Marxist Frenchman, François, his ultra-conservative English brother, Thistlethwaite, or Théodore, their philosophical middle voice of reason - can be invested with control of the whole in order to expound on some of those différences which cause English and French 'geographically separated by just a narrow stretch of shallow brine, to be mentally vast oceans apart'. Illustrated by a host of amusing anecdotes based on the author's own experiences and observations during his forty years of survival among the French, François Théodore Thistlethwaite's FRENGLISH THOUGHTS gives us a seriously humorous insight into such diverse subjects as French and English women, the Puritan syndrome, the Marxist factor, queuing, the French driver, sporting fair play and many more - some of which are provocative enough to rock the very foundations of the Entente Cordiale.