actually, due to the inheritage stems from the intimacy between France and Ottoman Empire in terms of politics, commercial , military and ensuing cultural, there is a popular French culture in Turkey now,albeit it has been diminished comparing to before.
and even in my class ,there are 5 person out of 30 ,who have a skilled French level although my university is based on English.
as for what i know about France or French Culture, there are some fairy tales???? about Frenchs. i am not sure these tales are spesifically common only in Turkey but they are really interesting.i have always read such things from Internet and heard from friends so i want to learn it from a French.it is commonly said the French people were really so dirty in medieval ages and they had not even bath maybe one in a year and ensuingly the umbrella , parfumes high heeled shoes were invented because of the smell and dirtiness.(you can think what s the relevance between smell and umbrella and shoes but it has another story and it is disgusting so i dont want to share it)i think these are just nonsense but i am not sure.why not?
the mere fact i believe is that although there were hundreds of thousands rooms in Versailles Palace when it was built , it was overlooked to make even a bathroom or toilet room.there were everything in that palace but no bathroom.
anyway, for the time bening i know french people are very clean and well looking.would you mind informing me about these matters?
regards.