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Jean-Christophe Rufin criticizes French self-satisfaction

Writer and former diplomat Jean-Christophe Rufin compares France to a frog thinking it is an ox.

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He denounces a decline hidden by nationalist and nostalgic discourse.

His analysis reignites the debate on France's place in the world.

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