4.0 out of 5 based on 1 reviews. – Customer review on 13/04/2008

The book was a quick read. While I totally agree with the author that French women are more elegant and eat healthier, there are other areas of their life that did not impress me. Clearly France is a different place. And the women come from a background where certains aspects of life are no match for ours.
The biggest let down for me was that the title makes you think that you are going to learn to live like a French women. But you don't. You only learn that French women buy fancy underwear, condone extramarital affairs, do things when they feel like and that the most important thing to them after having a baby is to not look like you had a baby.
I got the impression that French women are intellectual, but also shallow and self indulgent. That truly may not be the case, but it is what the author makes it seem like. The best person in the book, the most real person, was a behind the scenes young woman at a fashion house who was not elegantly dressed, had a soda in her hand and was not pencil thin.
It's a fun read if you make sure you dont take it too seriosly - a must for any woman wanting to capture some of the style and sophistication of being French.