From Alain Peyrefitte's "Le mal français", published in 1976, which denounced a fussy bureaucracy, an excess of centralization, a weakness of the entrepreneurial spirit and an overly dirigiste state, a work that was a great success, to the latest book by the former governor of the Bank of France, Jacques de Larosière, who wonders if "the French decline is reversible", there are countless publications that give a negative image of France and its economy. Self-denigration has become a national sport as the systematic criticism of everything that should be considered successes.
Nuclear power provides a first example ...