You can't have been surprised, Samuraisan. Detailed write-ups ahve appeared in all the papers for the last few days.
Must admit, had me hooked from the start, too:-)
Don't know quite what you're all on about, but the French are different. Sounds to be about sex. The very first dinner-party I went to the (some-what elderly) host asked, out of the blue, if I was wearing a G-string!
No, they're very uncomfortable - and so I told him.....but then he wanted to know what I was wearing! This was a highly respectable party in rural France!
jourdain;//Actually his father had been a very brave man in the Resistance//
Did you meet many French people who did not have a father/grandfather who wasn't a hero in 'the resistance' ?