France as a centrally directed state is about 350 years old, and contra those great centralizers Louis XIV, Napoleon and de Gaulle, there always has been considerable resistance to everything being run from Paris.
France as a centrally directed state is about 350 years old, and contra those great centralizers Louis XIV, Napoleon and de Gaulle, there always has been considerable resistance to everything being run from Paris.
My favorite version of that song is what’s incorporated in the 1812 overture.