A Breath of French Air is a 1959 comedy novel by the British writer H. E. Bates.

It is the sequel to his popular 1958 novel The Darling Buds of May about a family living in the Kent countryside.

However they at first find France disconcertingly unlikable, including the bad weather.

[3] In 1991 it was adapted into two episodes of the ITV television series The Darling Buds of May featuring David Jason and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

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