"Hello, this is Muriel Zagar from the podcast Garlic and Pearls. This week, I explore how something completely satanic and objectionable, something downright evil and to be avoided at all cost, has become a trope of Frenchness, part and parcel of French identity, to the point where you can't really imagine French elegance without it. What is it? How did it happen? Find out. Wherever you get your podcasts, Garlic and Pearls."