THE TELEGRAPH: Parisians are traditionally viewed as rude, arrogant and unwelcoming in the popular British imagination.
Now the stereotype has been confirmed - by a French poll that completed the character assassination by labelling the capital's inhabitants "snobbish" and "self-regarding".
"We find them to be hard working and cultivated," the political magazine Marianne said of Parisians in an editorial published alongside the survey.
"But we consider them to be above all way too arrogant, aggressive, flirtatious, stressed, chauvinistic, snobbish, and self-regarding than other French people. >>> Peter Allen in Paris | Tuesday, March 02, 2010