The Thing About France

Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S.

The Thing About France is a podcast where cultural figures explore the fascinating and complicated relationship between France and America.

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The Thing About France

Episodes (22)

Sep 22, 2020 Pamela Druckerman on Life, Love, and Lust as an American in France
Sep 8, 2020 Graydon Carter on the Importance of Failure, Decamping to the South of France, and Zoom Cocktail Parties
Aug 25, 2020 Journalist and Editor William Middleton on Embracing Foreignness, Surviving COVID, and Tracing the Steps of the de Menils

The Thing About France

Sep 22, 2020
46½ minutes
104 MB

Eight years ago, an American writer named Pamela Druckerman emerged on the national and international scene wearing a beret –– somewhat ironically –– and wielding a radical theory of child-rearing. Radical, that is, to Americans, it was completely normal to the French. She'd written a best-selling book that you've probably heard of, called Bringing Up Bébé. In it, she revealed the French method of raising well-behaved, sociable children. French babies, she explained, slept soundly through the night, even when they were only a few months old. French kids ate Camembert without complaint; and when French adults were having conversations, their kids didn...

The Thing About France

Pamela Druckerman on Life, Love, and Lust as an American in France

Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S.

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