The true ethos of a French restaurant kitchen, with its large, proud, sweltering, hardworking, ill-paid, humbly born staff, is blue-collar raffish, rather than high-society snobbish, and that ethos infuses Kuh's approach to his subject.
The presiding ethos is indeed French, with the scent of Provence in its nostrils, but it's also within striking distance of both Italy and Spain.
Because it springs from the shock of the French Revolution in 1789, the ethos of the French right is very different from that of the English Conservative Party, which finally, when all is said and done, means what it says on the tin – to conserve.
On the Laotian side of the border it was not difficult to understand the pioneer ethos that motivated the French to explore what had been a black hole in the knowledge of European travelers until the mid-19th century.
Real cinematic killer B's may be extinct, but at the French film factory EuropaCorp the B-movie ethos of cheap genre thrills endures.
Frequently forced underground, these and their inheritors nevertheless gave energy to the revolutionary ethos that constituted another, equally French, contribution to the radical traditions of western Europe.
Meanwhile, Upstairs London, a laid-back French and Mediterranean eatery with a culinary ethos also rooted in the local and seasonal best, opened additional seating for 20 this year in its almost clandestine location on the second and third floors of a high street town house.
Ando is the Japanese head of Fukushima Ethos, a project led by French NGO the Center of Studies on the Evaluation of Protection in the Nuclear Field (CEPN) and funded by the French nuclear energy lobby.
The tale concerns a French refugee whose artistic sensuality contrasts with the puritanical ethos of her new home in Norway.
The scapegoating of Islam and Muslims, the racialised inequality in housing, education, and employment, and the dominance of a Republican ethos that denies the true diversity of French society go on.
