Beware, girls, if you’re headed for la belle France

Author Polly Platt has been telling us for years that the French are different, which is why I always recommend her books, “French or Foe?” and “Savoir Flair,” to Americans headed for the land of Colette and Coco Chanel.

Now she’s back with “Love à la Française,” a new book about how that difference comes into play when American women fall for French men.

In her 30-plus years as an American living in France, she has seen too many ingénues from Pittsburgh fall in love with Jean-Paul, Claude or Etienne and then run into trouble. So, in “Love à la Française” she tells us what really happens when, as the subtitle says, “Hervé meets Sally.”

Platt uses her wicked sense of humor and insider’s knowledge of the way things work in France to warn American women that they’d better be willing to wear high heels and learn how to whip up a soufflé if they want to make a lightning love affair with a Frenchman stick.

— Susan Spano, Los Angeles Times staff writer

[Image: PollyPlatt.com]

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