Sarkozy Gov't Urges French To Abandon "Old National Habit" Of Thinking

The New York Times:

France is the country that produced the Enlightenment, Descartes's one-liner, "I think, therefore I am," and the solemn pontifications of Jean-Paul Sartre and other celebrity philosophers.

But in the government of President Nicolas Sarkozy, thinking has lost its cachet.

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