France Is Finished, and the French Are Culprits

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John Vinocur, The Gallic Shrug on an Epic Scale; Reform won’t happen if the French keep electing status-quo candidates. Wall Street Journal, Sept 24, 2014 (op-ed).
online.wsj.com/articles/john-vinocur-what-french-voters-dont-want-1411415838

My comment:
(a) Gallic (adj): "of or relating to Gaul or France"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gallic

My comment:
(a) “The Gallic” is similar to “the rich”--to signal a group of people.
(b) The introduction to the writer is at the end of the essay. A Paris-based subsidiary of New York Times Company, International Herald Tribune was renamed a year ago as International New York Times.
© Read the first half, and that is enough.