"Back in print for the first time in decades—and featuring a new interview with the author, in celebration of her forthcoming centennial birthday—the delectable escapades of Hollywood legend Olivia de Havilland, who fell in love with a Frenchman, and then became a Parisian

In 1953, Olivia de Havilland—already an Academy Award-winning actress for her roles in To Each His Own and The Heiress—became the heroine of her own real-life love affair. She married a Frenchman, moved to Paris, and planted her standard on the Left Bank of the River Seine. It has been fluttering on both Left and Right Banks with considerable joy and gaiety from that moment on.

Still, her transition from Hollywood celebrity to parisienne was anything but easy. And in Every Frenchman Has One, her skirmishes with French customs, French maids, French salesladies, French holidays, French law, French doctors, and above all, the French language, are here set forth in a delightful and amusing memoir of her early years in the “City of Light.”

Paraphrasing Caesar, Ms. de Havilland says, “I came. I saw. I was conquered.”"

This book seriously sounds kind of fun and raunchy, like Mitford sister goes Hollywood... with a vintage cover to die for.

This book is simply charming. It hails back to a much more genteel, considerate and reflective time. I felt like a lady reading such a well-written and polished book. I would like to add a little more of that polish and respectability to everyday living, it was a great mental vacation.

Back in print again for the first time in decades, the 1962 memoir by Gone With the Wind star/Hollywood legend Olivia de Havilland - who turned 100 in 2016 - is a brief, lighthearted tale of how she fell in love with a Frenchman and came to relocate to Paris. If you're looking for any recollections of her films, celebrity friends, or experiences making movies in Hollywood, you're going to be hugely disappointed; the book barely even touches on the movies she continued to make once living in France - otherwise the industry is barely even mentioned. No, this book is more for pure de Havilland fans, or Francophiles who would enjoy reading about the various comparisons she makes between the U.S and France in terms of everything from men to fashion to raising kids, hiring servants, dealing with home remodeling crews ... even the way size and importance of a woman's bust are viewed between the two countries. Never approaching anything controversial or political, the book reads very much like a Hollywood Movie Star having a sort of fireside chat with her fans, courtesy of an extra-long cover story in a favorite issue of Photoplay; nothing exciting or revealing or deep, the book has its charms but I was looking for something with a little more meat to it. 2.5/5 stars

Note: I received a free ARC of this title via NetGalley and the publisher, in exchange for an honest review.