France: Two Cheers for Prosperity
Twenty years of benign authoritarianism: is that the price the French have paid for economic growth and confidence? Do they care? Are they worried about their social inequality and the dominance of the elite technocrats in Paris? Do they want more say in the way their lives are run? Is their love affair with material progress giving way to a new concern for the quality of life? Can they change and still maintain stability?
John Ardagh reports from Paris. Montpellier and La Rochelle.
Producer DAVID MORTON
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