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When someone says ‘the French woman’, a flood of stereotypes may (or may not) come to mind - the sexy accent, the simple yet on point fashion, the ever-slender frame, no matter what they eat. Whatever it is - the stereotype of the French woman is used by advertisers, in books and in films.

With the return this week of Netflix's Emily in Paris, which sees an American woman hired to give her perspective to a Parisian marketing firm, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour wanted to look at the stereotype of ‘the French woman’. Do these ideals hold, or is it, to borrow a French word, just a cliché?

To discuss, Krupa Pahdy was joined on Woman’s Hour by the film maker and director Charlotte Seegers, who's film, 'She's French’, explores these ideas and also by the UK based French journalist Marie Le Conte.

You can listen to Woman’s Hour on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sounds.