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|| From: joanna bujes
|| Never had sex with a Frenchman/woman and I have never seen any other
|| evidence for the "exception culturelle" having anything to do
|| with sex...do
|| enlighten me on this one if you can.
It's all over the place, Joanna, how could you have missed it? TV, film, advertising - du cul et encore du cul.
One thing I overlooked in my lambasting of French culture: intellectualism. I remember when Bernard Pivot was the cultural pope and Régis Debray even wrote a book decrying the subservience of French intelligentsia to the media (Le pouvoir intellectuel en France). Well when the TF1 channel went commercial, the Pivot myth vanished overnight: Nobody was watching, it turned out.
Hakki