A dated piece, for sure, but still fun. In 2002, he published The Cry of the Gargoyle, a plangent appeal to France to rouse itself from “the temptation of resignation that threatens a nation as torpor overcomes it. . . . For many abroad, the French funeral has already been held!”
What would we do without French aristocrats telling it like it is?
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Gash called it right, huh?
To find themselves, therefore, apparently at the head of a European resistance movement against Washington’s policy over the Iraq war was a quite unexpected thrill for Chirac and de Villepin. But it brought out in them an arrogance, underpinned by deep insecurity, which has infuriated their partners not just in Washington but in Madrid, Warsaw, Rome, London, and many smaller capitals. Now they need to be helped down from their high horse. We should assist them.
Vanitas, vanitatum, et omnia vanitas.
Sic transit gloria mundi.
Memento mori.
The Romans said it all, can't improve on that.
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