Vile France: 255 Years of Duplicity, Cowardice and Cheese

Victor Davis Hanson, author of Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power
"Boyles' illustrations of the categories of French perfidy would make great comedy--if they were not so deadly accurate..."

Harry Stein, author of How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (and Found Inner Peace)
"Boyles' smart, caustic, laughing-out-loud funny take on France is long overdue."

Victor Davis Hanson author of Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power
"Boyles’ illustrations of French perfidy would make great comedy—if they were not so deadly accurate and all so sad."

David Horowitz, author of Radical Son
"Read it and weep—with laughter."

Harry Stein, author of How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (and Found Inner Peace)
"Boyles sweeps away the feel-good myths with which we’ve deluded ourselves for generations. This is a wonderful and important book."

Book Description
Nearly twelve years ago, in an effort to gather French public support for the Maastricht Treaty and the European Union, French president François Mitterrand famously said, "We are at war with America." America, along with the rest of the world, laughed it off. The country that had adopted Jerry Lewis as its comic muse was just engaging in another bout of Gallic exaggeration. But more recently, we’ve learned that the French take this war against America seriously. So Denis Boyles thinks the time has come for an equal and opposite reaction. As he writes in the introduction to this bitingly funny and informed look at the country that loves to poke a finger in the American eye, "What we mistakenly see as a craven, anti-Semitic, insecure, hypocritical, hysterically anti-American, selfish, overtaxed, culturally exhausted country, bereft of ideas, fearful of its own capitulation to Islam, headed for a demographic cul de sac, corrupted by lame ideologies, clinging to unsupportable entitlements, crippled by a spirit-stomping social elite and up to its neck in a cheesy soufflé of multilayered bureaucracy is actually worse than all that. It’s vile." Using his knowledge of history as well as his shrewd eye for current events, Boyles, who has lived in France for several years, unravels the long French hate affair with the United States. Along the way, he also examines the internal crises—a falling birthrate, an expanding Muslim minority, a lessened international prestige—that have transformed la belle France into a nation obsessed with status anxiety. His conclusion? "France looks great and seems swell, but it acts hideously. It’s the Ted Bundy of European nations." Vile France will gratify Francophobes everywhere and cause even the most committed defender of the Jacques Chirac worldview to wonder about his commitment—and perhaps even crack an occasional smile.

About the Author
Denis Boyles is the author of African Lives, Man Eaters Motel and A Man’s Life: The Complete Instructions, among other books. His work has appeared in Esquire, Playboy, the Washington Post, the New York Times and other publications. He currently writes the Euro-Press Review column for National Review Online and contributes to various magazines and journals.


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"Twelve years ago, in an effort to gather French public support for the Maastricht Treaty and the European Union, French president Francois Mitterrand famously said, "We are at war with America."" "America, along with the rest of the world, laughed it off. The country that had adopted Jerry Lewis as its comic muse, we assumed, was just engaging in another bout of Gallic exaggeration. But more recently, we've learned that the French take this war against America seriously. So Denis Boyles thinks the time has come for an equal and opposite reaction." "Using his knowledge of history as well as his shrewd eye for current events, Boyles, who has lived in France for several years, unravels the long French hate affair with the United States. Along the way, he also examines the internal crises - a falling birthrate, an expanding Muslim minority, a lessened international prestige - that have transformed la belle France into a nation obsessed with status anxiety. His conclusion? "France looks great and seems swell, but it acts hideously. It's the Ted Bundy of European nations."" Vile France will gratify Francophobes everywhere and cause even the most committed defender of the Jacques Chirac worldview to wonder about this commitment - and perhaps even crack an occasional smile.


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