Wine
cheese
Those "french tricks" without which our marital duties would be far too Anglo-Saxon.
Agincourt, and the subsequent invention of the whole concept of the "foreign holiday"
Cajun music (of surprisngly little interest to the mainland French, when you consider how much the English like Jamaican and American music).
The Eiffel Tower(when they do "tourist attraction", they do it in style).
Chirac, for being both rude and patronising to Blair.
Villon
An accent which it is great fun to imitate
Frere Jacque
Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau
Giving us the incentive to build boats and learn how to sail them.
Teaching us the invaluable lesson that if you're going to have a war, fight it on their territory, not ours.
Johnny Halliday,Eurotrash and the concept of Culture.
Centimetres, nanomegathingies and all that stuff which is apparently jolly useful.
Films to show in art theatres, particularly those ones where you used to be able to see things that weren't allowed to in Ealing comedies.
Jean-Paul Belmondo and the art of smoking Gsulloises.
Brigitte Bardot.
Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot
brigitte Bardot