Do French women find American men as ugly ?
It is not particularly a question of looks. In Russia and Eastern Europe, contacts, until fairly recently, with American men were almost nil, so they are a novelty, comparably well off, so seen as desirable to cultivate. When I was a small kid, French girls also swooned over young Americans, had a crush on men like Elvis Presley, James Dean, Pat Boone, Tab Hunter etc… Being American was cool, and the older generation was immensely grateful to those brave boys who had crossed the Atlantic to help turf the Boche out, so they made them welcome. At the time there were quite a few women who having met Americans who were stationed in France, did marry them and went to the States with them. Even now there are marriages between the two but, as one regular contributor to this column has done, the Americans men have stayed in their wife’s country because they preferred living there. There are a number of reasons why French women keep their distance. Many French women have had little contacts w
