Lucy Wadham

6.30-8.00pm | Tuesday 5 October 2010

Speaker
Lucy Wadham, Novelist and journalist. She is the author of The Secret Life of France (Faber & Faber, 2009)

Chair
Maurice Fraser, Senior Fellow in European Politics, European Institute, LSE and Vice-Chair of the Franco-British Council. He is a regular commentator in French media and was awarded the Légion d’honneur in 2008

The French concept of mentalité aims to describe distinctive mind-sets revealed in social conventions and everyday assumptions. Beyond national stereotypes, is there a recognisably ‘French’ way of managing the ethical dilemmas of private and public life, and the realities of political power?