Reinforcing stereotypes, French edition

By way of a cryptic link from Megan McArdle, this literally stunning bit of information:

The article quotes a pair of dentists, one from a Paris teaching hospital and one from the French dentistry association, and offers the following statistics (without citing sources).

- one million French citizens never brush their teeth

- half of all French do not brush their teeth in the evening

- 57% of French children under five have never brushed their teeth

- the average French citizen uses between one and two toothbrushes in a year

Of course, as one of the commenters pointed out at Megan's blog, half the children under five will be 0-2.5 years old . . . and another commenter pointed out that it was a "British columnist who read something in Le Figaro written by two French dentists who cited no sources for the stat".

But you guys all believe everything I post here, don't you? If it's on Quotulatiousness, it must be true . . . ish.