Maragret Wente, The Glob and Mail

Mr. Hollande’s troubled love life merely confirms the fact that France is run by a tiny, incestuous elite of political, business and media types who eat, drink and sleep together but have no clue what to do about the country’s woeful problems. Things have gotten so bad that some radical opinion-writers are even advising the younger generation to get out. And increasingly, they are. This is a startling development in a country whose most cherished shared belief is that France stands at the apex of civilization.