France, As Revealed by its Elite

European Straits #181

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…