To French or Not to French

Welcome to A livre Ouvert with me Avanti Victoire, A Livre Ouvert literally means an open book, but it also implies the promise of transparency and knowledge. If you are exhausted with Left or Right electoral politics & wish to explore different views on current affairs, then your journey begins here. My first episode is titled , To French or not to French. I wrote this article in the aftermath of the June riots in 2023. It has become imperative to specify which riot because rioting, it seems, comes easy to us French. However, this riot is just the tip of the iceberg and a symptom of a deeper malaise we suffer in France due to poor integration and assimilation. I've titled this one To French or not to French because I believe that a New France is on the rise and it is at loggerheads with an Old France. More alarmingly, our core French values of liberté égalité fraternité and laïcité are ebbing fast.