The Empire which, with the exception of the Napoleonic project, endured a stylish and ludicrous crawl towards obscurity, has nevertheless displayed a stunning ability not to die. And with the self-expulsion of the United Kingdom from the European community, and not just the union, and Germany's haphazard and nothing if not reluctant attempt to rise from the long struggle of not-quite-sovereign nationhood imposed alongside liberal democracy, and which has marked (or marred) the federal republic, France still stands - or believe itself to be.
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