Chapter

The New French Exception

Cultural Upstarts

EXCERPT

So, science has decided: the Great Market has genetic foundations! This is why the Turbo-Bécassines and the Cyber-Gideons are counted in tens of millions, all coveting a place at the Great Banquet of the tertiary society. They can’t wait to gorge themselves on a Great Market of ideas which in France, apparently, has not yet succeeded in completely eliminating that pocket of typically Latin viscosity that some call ‘The French Exception’…