On Books: A French Updike?
Otto Selles, Professor of French
Books&Culture online
December 3, 2007

After a day spent on research at the departmental archives in Montpellier, I wasn't in the mood for high-brow French culture. The shaded cafés of the city's gorgeous esplanade had much more appeal in the heat of a July evening. But the notice in the local paper had caught my eye. France Culture, the public radio station, and Le Monde, the left-leaning national daily, were holding a week-long conference on the question: "Are We More and More Conservative?"—the "we" being the French.

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