Benjamin Franklin recognized the appeal of this way of living. “Every man has two countries — his own and France,” he is reputed to have said. But the scandal of the present in France is that its way of life has not seduced the people who have moved to and made their lives in France. It is a failure that the French have not truly apprehended and that elected governments will have a devil of a time addressing. Can a minority population be “converted” into living for simple pleasures à la bonne franquette? By what force?
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