French government’s cultural pretensions exploded by ministerial gaffe

France can be proud that one of its best veteran writers, Patrick Modiano, has lived up to its great literary and intellectual traditions by winning the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature. It can be far less proud of its current government’s continuing antics in its own rearguard action against the supposed encroachment of Americanism, the […]

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