Twilight Voices
A Pantheon for the Lame Duck
violinWord was that Macron was sulking at the Élysée ever since chaos had taken up residence in the capital. That was all he needed: barely a week after learning that France, once the light of the world, was now threatened with international financial guardianship by a handful of German technocrats. What a poignant injustice for the Mozart of Finance, reduced to playing the violin on the Titanic! Even Jack Lang had retreated into a golden, velvet silence following recent revelations — luckily, the French judicial system, in its great constitutional wisdom, was sorely lacking the budget and clerks to address the matter before a good ten years of preliminary investigation…
