French men have something of a reputation - deserved or not - when it comes to "ardour and amour".
Whether they actually live up to it is, of course, open to debate.
But what of their male counterparts in the rest of the animal kingdom?
Can they turn on the charm when necessary? And does it work with the women?
Perhaps - no strike that - probably not a question you've really thought about.
But if the antics of one particular French ape and the attention he has received from three females at London Zoo are to be believed, then there might - just might - be something to it.
The ape in question is 12-year-old Yeboah, a gorilla who arrived in London from La Boissière du Doré zoo in western France last December.
Described as a "stud", Yeboah was shipped across the Channel to keep a bevvy of beauties (gorilla-cally-speaking) company after the death of their silverback mate "Bobby" back in 2008.
And the 127-kilogramme hunk certainly seems to have hit it off with all three; the more mature 35-year-old Zaire, the 16-year-old Effie and the slightly younger 11-year-old Mjukuu known as "Jookie".
Mind you perhaps it should come as no surprise.
You see when "les girls" learnt last summer that Yeboah would shortly be joining them, they apparently went "ape", "bananas" or whichever awful pun you wish to choose (and most of them seem to have been well and truly used).
They were given posters of their new beau several months before he made the trip across the Channel, and while one reportedly "shrieked in delight" and another "hid it in a tree", the third took matters a step further (too far?) and ate the thing!
Ah the path of true love...or lust.
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