Hi, it’s Nicolas from The Family. Here’s some rare coverage of my home country of France, and how its lagging behind in tech is explained by who rules the country 🇫🇷
🇫🇷 I haven’t covered my home country of France for quite some time, for various reasons. But today I’m making an exception due to the following:
Next Tuesday is Bastille Day 🎉 We’ll commemorate angry protestors taking to the streets of Paris, seeding disorder & unlawfulness, and even beheading the military governor of the Bastille fortress 😱 (Maybe someone was tweeting “LAW AND ORDER!” from Versailles that day? 😜)
My family and I are spending a few months in France (out in the middle of rural Normandy). We had to leave London 🇬🇧 in a hurry earlier this year due to the pandemic, and we’re waiting for the dust to settle before we can make a long-planned move to Munich, Germany 🇩🇪
And France has a new Prime Minister, with Jean Castex taking over from Édouard Philippe. It’s a good opportunity to have an in-depth discus…