Mitterrand’s France

MITTERRAND’S FRANCE

Visiting France, this time, was to experience a country slowly but very visibly declining under socialism. The reaction of the people in nearly all layers of French society testifies to it, and one senses it in every nook and cranny. I must confess that I had an unpleasant experience on my very first day. In broad daylight, on the Boulevard des Capucines, I was accosted by three little girls. One held a paper under my nose, another tried to stick a flower into my lapel— and the third absconded with my wallet, as I noticed just too late.

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MITTERRAND’S FRANCE

Visiting France, this time, was to experience a country slowly but very visibly declining under socialism. The reaction of the people in nearly all layers of French society testifies to it, and one senses it in every nook and cranny. I must confess that I had an unpleasant experience on my very first day. In broad daylight, on the Boulevard des Capucines, I was accosted by three little girls. One held a paper under my nose, another tried to stick a flower into my lapel— and the third absconded with my wallet, as I noticed just too late.