Or at least that's how they've sold it to us mere non-French mortals.
Like us mere mortals, he struggles with power supplies on trains: "When I came up to London to do press, I thought, 'Oh, I can go on the train and make some music on the way up.' I didn't have any power sockets to plug anything into, so that didn't work out so good.
That was the inclination I noticed John Hume was nodding towards during the last days of the election campaign; lesser mortals in his party were mobilising to count the Fenian vote in West Tyrone.
It promises readers untold riches, an insight into a fabulous world far removed from that of mere mortals; gems of important information, the gleaning of which cannot help but improve your life.
As played by Megan Fox, several orders of magnitude of icy beauty above the mere mortals around her, Jennifer is the worst type of popular high school girl, fully aware of her newfound beauty and confident enough to brandish it like a weapon against one and all.
But unlike Cannes, open to "film professionals" only, at Toronto everyday mortals are the festival's lifeblood.
The exhibition is being staged in partnership with the Qatar Museums Authority, and exhibits are being shown in genuine safes from 1850-1910, highlightheg the out-of-reach nature of pearls for most mortals.
Maybe that's what roused Mr Jay down into the world of moviegoing mortals.
They are not keen on rococo corporate structures (cross-shareholdings between units based in assorted offshore jurisdictions, say) which mere mortals can scarcely understand, let alone disentangle in a crisis.
This is still very much at the research stage," he says.When pressed for examples of applications of the semantic web that common mortals might appreciate, Sir Tim enthuses about "friend-of-a-friend" networks, where individuals in online communities provide data in the form of links between themselves and their colleagues and friends.
"We are dressed about as badly as mortals could be," he wrote of one youthful adventure: "unshaven faces, dirty gray shirts, still dirtier yellow trowsers".
