Stephen Clarke lives in Paris and writes book with titles such as 1,000 Years of Annoying the French. Dirty Bertie is a book in the same line — a comic history which manages to combine his brand of jaunty, bawdy humour (not mine, I confess) with being genuinely informative about French history.
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Available from the Spectator Bookshop, £16.50. Tel: 08430 600033. Jane Ridley is the author of Bertie: A Life of Edward VII.
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