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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