Author Archives: Lucy Wadham
What’s wrong with France’s schools?
French schools are meant to promote secular, republican values, but their conformism is stifling pupils
Why it is time to stop idealising French women
As sexual politics hits the headlines in France, Lucy Wadham considers why the mystique of the French woman holds such enduring appeal
Why do so many French women accept sexism?
If you want to understand French women's sympathy for DSK, suggests Lucy Wadham, just watch Madmen
Sarko the sex dwarf
The collective French desire to be dominated by a strong, libidinous male explains Nicholas Sarkozy's mysterious power
Letter from Paris
The French do mass demonstration very well. The manif is the closest this lapsed Catholic society gets to the rapture of Mass
End of the secret garden
The French used to see a person's private life as sacred. But now Anglo-Saxon "transparency" is taking over
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