Mythbuster: The French are workshy with a 35-hour week This is false. In fact, the French work more than employees in the UK
Mythbuster: French music cannot survive outside France This is false! Quite a few musicians make their name internationally
Mythbuster: French state schools do not have uniforms This is no longer 100% true. One town is experimenting with a uniform – but it is not obligatory MYTHBUSTER: French people smoke as heavily as ever Mythbuster: France is a strongly Catholic country Mythbuster: Most French people can ski to some extent
Mythbuster: French farmers gain most from EU policy Problems over the European Union Common Agricultural Policy featured large in the run-up to the Brexit referendum but, despite claims that French farmers benefited the most, figures show that British farmers get more per head than French farmers do.
Mythbuster: France trailing European financial markets Fact or Fake? In this regular column, we look at the ‘truths’ that everyone ‘knows’ about France
Mythbuster: the French are arrogant Most people living in France, and most tourists, know this is mainly false; yet the myth has been around for a long time and will likely persist. There are a couple of explanations.
Mythbuster: Only tourists eat snails and frogs legs Fact or Fake? In this regular column, we look at the ‘truths’ that everyone ‘knows’ about France
Mythbuster: France has 258 varieties of cheese In this regular column we look at the ‘truths’ that everyone ‘knows’ about France
Mythbuster: French drivers prefer to buy French cars In this column we look at the ‘truths’ that everyone ‘knows’ about France
Mythbuster: Unemployment benefit is over-generous Fact or Fake? In this regular column, we look at the ‘truths’ that everyone ‘knows’ about France
Mythbuster: French restaurants and vegetarians The land of steak tartare and foie gras has long been regarded as a wasteland for vegetarians – but, in the words of the song, the times they are a-changin’.
Mythbuster: French prefer renting to buying A few years ago a UK daily newspaper ran an article on how English people ‘see themselves as kings of their own castles’ while the ‘Germans and French prefer to rent’.