I have always been a Francophile, hugely fond of France. There has been only one thing that I didn't like about it: the French. To be exact, not all the French, only the petit bourgeois variety, as petty as bourgeois can get: miserly, xenophobic, small-minded.The more educated classes, including the snooty quasi-aristocrats, are something else again, although during my year as a Fulbright fellow I didn't get to know …
SOURCE: John Simon at 02:40PM on April 19, 2016