Blog: If There Is Hell Below...

The thing about the French is (if I can open up with a massive sweeping generalisation about a vast and complex society) that they're really quite good at a lot of stuff. Cycling, literature, painting, medicine, having sex, socialism, eating, arguing, telling the government to fuck off... As if that weren't enough, France is also a giant magpie's nest. Bet you didn't know the computer, the cinema projector, the motor car and the aeroplane were all invented in France. 'Alexander Graham QUI?' they cry as they gaze up at the grand statue of Charles Bourseul, inventor of the telephone. We [...]