France Her People And Her Spirit

The Pleasant Land Of France Hides A Deep Ruthless Realism Beneath Its Amenities, And Its Philosophy, Which Tries To Make Life As Agreeable As May Be On The Surface, Is Grave, Sometimes Bitter, Beneath. The Silent Peasant Of The North, The Chattering Southerner In His Second-rate Vineyards, The Solemn, Priest-like Vintner Of The Great Mdoc, The Bullet-headed Auvergnat; The Little Bourgeois, The Big Bourgeois, The Striving Little Shopkeeper, The Man Of Big Undertakings: They Are All Realists, They All Have A Great Faith In Life, Perhaps A Rather Dry, Hard, Too Shrewd Faith, But Because Of It They Anyhow Try To Make Life More, Not Less, Worth Living. -from Chapter Ii: The Land And Its People As The Chief Paris Correspondent For Londons Daily Telegraph, British Journalist Laurence Jerrold Was Intimately Familiar With The People And Places Of The Gallic Nation, And His Love Of The Country Shines Through In This Beautifully Written Book.