Volume 41, Number 5 · March 3, 1994
France: Keeping the Demons at Bay
By Stanley Hoffmann
Few nations have been so successful at advertising their troubles, at turning their difficulties into dramas and fears into phobias, as the French. In a country where much has changed over the past half-century, the habit of loud self-examination survives intact.
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