English Pharisees French Crocodiles, and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters
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O'Rell Max. English Pharisees French Crocodiles, and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters
CHAPTER I. FOREIGNERS
CHAPTER II. JOHN BULL UP TO DATE
CHAPTER III. JACQUES BONHOMME, THE LANDED PEASANT-PROPRIETOR OF FRANCE
CHAPTER IV. JACQUELINE, THE FORTUNE OF FRANCE
CHAPTER V. JOSEPH PRUDHOMME, THE JOG-TROT MIDDLE-CLASS FRENCHMAN
CHAPTER VI. ENTERTAINING NEIGHBORS
CHAPTER VII. FRENCH IMPULSIVENESS AND BRITISH SANGFROID ILLUSTRATED BY TWO REMINISCENCES
CHAPTER VIII. ENGLISH PHARISEES AND FRENCH CROCODILES
CHAPTER IX. FRENCH AND ENGLISH SOCIAL FAILURES
CHAPTER X. HIGH-LIFE ANGLO-FRENCH GIBBERISH AS USED IN FRANCE AND IN ENGLAND
CHAPTER XI. HUMOR, WIT, AND HIBERNIANISM
CHAPTER XII. THE MAL DE MER
CHAPTER XIII. BRITISH PHILOSOPHY AND FRENCH SENSITIVENESS
CHAPTER XIV. THE FRENCH SNOB
CHAPTER XV. A SUCCESS AS AN ANGLOPHOBIST. (THE LATE MARQUIS DE BOISSY.)
CHAPTER XVI. WOMAN WORSHIP
CHAPTER XVII. FAITH AND REASON
CHAPTER XVIII. THE WORSHIP OF THE GOLDEN CALF
CHAPTER XIX. WHY THE FRENCH WERE BEATEN IN 1870
CHAPTER XX. ENGLAND WORKS FOR HERSELF. THE WORLD OWES HER NOTHING
CHAPTER XXI. THE SPIRIT OF DESTRUCTION AND THE SPIRIT OF CONSERVATISM
CHAPTER XXII. ORDER AND LIBERTY
CHAPTER XXIII. THE HUMORS OF POLITICS
CHAPTER XXIV. LORDS AND SENATORS
CHAPTER XXV. WHAT FRANCE HAS DONE TO MERIT THE RESPECT OF THE WORLD
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People very often speak ill of their neighbors, not out of wickedness, but merely out of laziness; it is so much easier to do so than to study their qualities and all the circumstances that might oblige you to change your opinion.
For instance, some fifty years ago, a great English wit, Sydney Smith, said that it required a surgical operation to make a Scotchman understand a joke.
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We French people ought not to be a closed letter to the foreigner, for Heaven knows we make no attempt to hide our defects, and I might even add that if we did study to hide them, instead of boasting of them, we might cut quite as good and moral a figure as the most proper inhabitant of the British Isles or of the State of Maine.
Yes, the foreigner ought to be able to read, as in an open book, that good, warm-hearted, France that he hardly looks at. For him, France is Paris; Paris that supplies him with pleasures for a fortnight, and that he despises when he is satiated. The real France, peaceful and laborious, he knows nothing about beyond what he has seen of it from the windows of a railroad car.
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