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The French Shoot Themselves in les Pieds Again

The French Shoot Themselves in les Pieds Again

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Fredric Koeppel
Oct 20, 2008
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French culture has always been a charming and annoying nexus of elegance, arrogance and paranoia, but now the country has reached its nadir, and not all the other nadirs that came before but a new, even more significant one. In the nation that serves

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as a model for excellence in wine-making, many of whose wines are honored as exemplars for the rest of t…

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