« But could it be otherwise, in our lands, since a dynamic and inclusive civilization came to folklorize our local cultures, transformed into eco-museum, tourist stays and crowded Venices? It is not by servility but by inculturation that the extraterritoriality of American law is experienced as natural. We would not understand except that we accept so easily to be taxed (steel and aluminum), racketeering (banks), listened (the NSA), taken hostage (the German automobile), ordered or cancelled in extremis (militaryly), subjected to blackmail (our companies in Iran), etc. The hyperpower has obtained its naturalization, and we live as our domestic conflicts (all of the heart behind Mrs. Clinton, the good America, against the wicked, that of Trump, by affiliated with the Democratic Party). "The power is to reign over the imagination," Necker said, and the Americanization of our public space (the "primaries") followed that of our intimate musings. »

« We may also be remorseful for cutting off Louis XIV's head. »

« We don't blame them for our discomies, for these gentle intransigents. »