At a time when Parliament is debating a text on the country's energy sovereignty, highlighting the security of supply, the competitiveness of production tools and their contribution to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, it is becoming clear that it is electricity that has played an essential role in the country's prosperity by meeting these requirements. But this is not new.

Nearly a century ago, the painter Raoul Dufy had produced, for the 1937 Universal Exhibition, on the order of the organizers, a set of a hundred paintings which, together, described the appearance of electricity in civilization. Portraits ...

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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 ...

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The restoration of the balance of the general pension system has been a major factor of political instability in France for nearly three years. The decision in 2023 to raise the legal retirement age to 64 generated deep discontent that was not without consequences for the outcome of the 2024 European elections. The legislative elections that followed the dissolution decided by the President of the Republic once again reflected this discontent and deprived the country of a majority in the National Assembly. The new government appointed after these elections was then censured by proposing a bill to finance social security ...

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