La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life

By Elaine Sciolino

Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Travel

Elaine Sciolino, former Paris bureau chief of The New York Times, explores how seduction shapes French life far beyond romance. She shows how the French art of charm and persuasion appears in politics, diplomacy, food, fashion, perfume, language and business. Drawing on interviews with politicians, intellectuals and ordinary people, Sciolino explains how understanding seduction helps make sense of France and its people.

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• Shane Parrish: “La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life, by Elaine Sciolino. “In english, ‘seduce’ has a negative and exclusively sexual feel; in French, the meaning is broader. The French use ‘seduce’ where the British and Americans mught use ‘charm’ or ‘attract’ or ‘engage’ or ‘entertain’. .. A grand seducteur … might refert o someone who never fails to persuade others to his point of view.”