Parisians really are rude, French poll finds

By Peter Allen in Paris Published: 4:34PM GMT 02 March 2010

Now the classify has been reliable - by a French check that finished the impression gangland slaying by labelling the capital"s inhabitants "snobbish" and "self-regarding".

"We find them to be tough operative and cultivated," the domestic repository Marianne pronounced of Parisians in an paper published to one side the survey.

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"But we cruise them to be on top of all approach as well arrogant, aggressive, flirtatious, stressed, chauvinistic, snobbish, and self-regarding than alternative French people.

More than 70 per cent of those questioned thought Parisians were some-more lofty than alternative French people, whilst some-more than 65 per cent thought them some-more assertive and arrogant. However, majority of the French questioned did not think any of these characteristics were quite negative, with 68 per cent in all carrying a "good opinion" of their associate countrymen vital in the capital.

They referred to that Parisians worked harder, were underneath some-more stress, and had longer commutes than anybody else, definition they were maybe entitled to be upsetting to each other, and to alternative people, the check found.

Paris is the majority renouned traveller end in the world, with Britons creation up the largest series of visitors each year.

This is notwithstanding the actuality that majority continually protest about all from conceited waiters to Latin lotharios preying on on vacation women on the Champs Elysee.

The CSA check was carried out by write progressing this month, with 1000 French adults vital outward of Paris interviewed as a deputy sample.