@Joonas: Some Parisians regard themselves as "Parisian", not French; or, French is a secondary thing. Hence Parisians have a reputation for being haughty. Outside of Paris working-class French people were great (hitch-hiking days) sharing food with us, laughing about the England football-team losing again. It's the aspirants who are the problem--the "ten-bob millionaires"; or, as Newcastle people would say, "the nowts" = "the nothings" ("ow" as in "cow").