Your Friday clicks:

Britons see French as sexier, but less witty
Expats living the good life say there is less crime and more respect in France
Small-town France the key to solving Scotland’s obesity epidemic
French telecom firm fined for ‘dirty Arab’ password

Air France faces racial abuse charges again
Have the French fallen out of love with food?
The End of the French Lunch?
France fights phone rays
French teachers to search pupils for weapons
Trouble for French fashion house

Book reviews:
France liberated, the full version (Economist)
D-Day: the battle for Normandy, by Antony Beevor (Independent)