The French Obsession With National Suicide
▻http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/french-obsession-national-suicide
ere are few things the French find more annoying than what they call “French bashing”—a term they use in English, despite their insistence on finding French equivalents for foreign words. When Jean Tirole was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, Prime Minister Manuel Valls sent out a tweet of congratulations to “another Frenchman to the heavens,” adding, “Quel pied-de-nez au french bashing!”—“What a thumb in the nose to French bashing!”
#défiance #crise_des_valeurs (ce mot-clé existe dans la base du @mdiplo faudrait regarder ça de plus près un jour)