Talk:A Year in the Merde
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[edit] A Year in Provence
It would seem very likely that the name A Year in the Merde is a play on A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle (ISBN 0679731148), an earlier work on Anglo-French cultural relations. I believe the article should mention this, just in passing. -- John Fader (talk | contribs) 09:34, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I haven't read the book, but it seems to me very strange that the daughter of a rich man is living in a HLM. Ilive in France myself and know what a HLM is: that's a place where NOONE wants to live!
There are area's around Paris where even thought it is a sort of HLM it is reserved for Posh people. I have helped my father deliver Goods to those area and I can tell you that you won't see a beggar in the street. Police cars do patrol around those areas. Hence it is a possibility. Those so called HLM are 5 story high and no more usualy.
I'm confused. The blackmail element in this book is pretty integral to the plot. If the blackmail element is real then it's absurd to have published it as a book. If the blackmail element is fake, then it seems like a lot of this book must have been fake? Anyone know much fake stuff and real stuff was really in here? Crypticfortune 03:38, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
