C’EST LA VIE: THE FRENCH ART OF LETTING GO

WHEN it comes to keeping a slim figure, dressing with effortless chic or raising well-behaved children, the French are the supreme authority – at least according to self-help books urging us to adopt Gallic methods.

Now, bestselling author Fabrice Midal proposes a system of meditation with a distinctly French accent. Real wisdom, he maintains, “consists neither in burying our emotions nor in exhibiting them. It entails engaging with them, so you can ultimately distinguish truth from falsehoods”. |