France is grappling with the damage to its reputation as the global capital of intellectualism after the nation's minister of culture sheepishly confessed that she doesn't read books. "Barbarism is here," declared the writer Claude Askolovitch. "If one can be culture minister without reading, then we are mere technocrats and budgeters."
Oui.
Evidament.
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