
Bastille Day Special: What makes France tick?
The David McWilliams Podcast
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The French Obsession With Stability
Emile Morro and Callo were both educated at these technocratic universities in France called the Sienz Po, right? Which is the Institute of Science and Politics. They were set up after the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, which the French lost. In reaction to that loss, they said, we need to get our state centralized, producing munitions for the First World War against Germans. And Morro was at the center of this. He was a finance guy at the centre of this. But two days after the trial, what the French started to see was gold coins start to disappear from France. Now, the reason this happened is that the French have always had this obsession in
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