Introduction: to the reader / William Kidd and Siân Reynolds
France @ your fingertips: print and on-line resources / Elizabeth Ezra and Dougal Campbell
How the French present is shaped by the past: the last hundred years in historical perspective / Siân Reynolds
French cultural policy: the special role of the state / Susan Collard
French education: equal or elitist? / Lucy Mitchell
Social difference: age and place / Marion Demossier and Susan Milner
Sexual fault lines: sex and gender in the cultural context / Lucille Cairns
The challenges of multiculturalism: regional and religious differences in France today / Alec G. Hargreaves
French political culture: homogenous or fragmented? / Brian Jenkins
If it isn't clear, it isn't French: language and identity / James Munro
French public culture: places and spaces / Helen Beale
Frenchness: constructed and reconstructed / William Kidd
Sport and identity in the new France / Philip Dine
Advertising culture in France: no Coca-Cola please, we're French!/ Alastair Duncan


A night at the theatre / Christophe Campos
Cinema in a nation of filmgoers / Sue Harris
Festivals and fêtes populaires / Sue Harris
From press barons to digital TV: changing media in France / Jean-Claude Sergeant
From Messiaen to MC Solaar: music in France in the second half of the twentieth century / Mary Breatnach and Eric Sterenfeld
Reading books in France: la culture du livre / Bernard C. Swift
Intellectuals in French culture / Martyn Cornick
The French contribution to contemporary cultural analysis / Jeremy F. Lane.