[Lizard_King]

I agree, especially if you like at slimy sadists like Sartre (alliteration!). However, as much as I dislike this century's variation on the frenchman, we must not forget that there was once a proud tradition of liberty fortified and founded by Frenchmen; for every socialist like Rousseau there was a Voltaire, Montesqueiu, LaMettrie, or Diderot to set them straight.

Merde is right...now all they have to offer the world is hatred, lies, and a pitiful pretense of relevance.

[headsonpikes]

I'll grant you Montesquieu. ;^)

And amongst relative contemporaries, Raymond Aron. (there are others, of course)

The French are obsessed with constructing 'un projet social' greater and more splendid than anything the 'cochons anglais' could manage.

La Gloire, you know.