You might remember Sandersonâ??s story. She was sacked for after her picture appeared on her blog (also entitled Petite Anglaise).

As her employer (Sanderson was a secretary for the firm), Dixon Wilson felt it had been cast in a bad light. She won her case for unfair dismissal.

Celebrating the release of the book, Sanderson writes on the Amazon website how her life has changed: â??If someone had told me a couple of years ago that I'd be posing for photographs destined for a Sunday newspaper on a Paris roof terrace on Valentines Day 2008, I doubt I would have believed them. It would have sounded terribly glamorous to me then, as I hammered away on my keyboard, typing a letter to a French tax inspector for my boss, wondering whether my boyfriend - James at the time - had been disingenuous enough to take my "Valentine's Day is commercial nonsense' tirade seriously".'

She complains of the cold during the photo shoot. â??When I get home, an hour and a half later, the first thing I do is immerse my icy feet in a bowl of warm water. They itch and burn as circulation is restored. â??There are days - not many I'll grant you - when I feel kind of nostalgic for my unglamorous secretarial job with its toasty-warm central heating.â??

I doubt it.