Journey to the Heart of French Specificity
Christian Decoeur turns the argument from French specificity back on itself: from the Chevalier de La Barre beheaded for keeping his hat on to two schoolgirls expelled for keeping their scarves on, and through a catalogue of what that specificity has actually produced - record psychotropic consumption, a justice system under the executive, a medicine that hurls anathemas, and a list of therapies that all end at the same guillotine word.