It there are now many years since the franc passed away (about a decade already!) and yet this article Figaro showed us there is little that 69% of French people feel nostalgia for the franc (47% regretted "very much" our old currency, and 22% "somewhat") - who are not Indeed, even if it kept a few of these pieces we've always known (the former franc remains a frank), and the economic crisis makes us even more regret? While the debate over national identity (or rather "Republican" by its proponents, as was quickly understood) is closed, however, this survey provides us with a small element that could contribute: money that we like our Parents have always used Does it not part of our daily lives and hence our "temporal identity"? Thus the notions of identity and sovereignty are intertwined: the euro, which replaced the franc, is a part of our sovereignty, which never stops to dissolve since the Revolution - first in the Democracy, then in Europe. For if the French were consistent, they would understand that being nostalgic for the franc, returns to being an independent sovereignty of Europe, control of its currency is an attribute of that sovereignty. Obviously, a perfect amount of coherence even be nostalgic for a sovereignty that is independent not only of Europe but also independent in itself, therefore absolute for the Common Good. Probably be so nostalgic, the Capetian monarchy would it be more difficult because he would have known, and we know from experience that royalists collective memory of the French of today do not often go back that far. Many even believe that France (the republic, sorry), would be born in 1789, and it did not known any other than the franc by the euro.
Precisely, here are some clear that the royalists can enjoy unqualified because they are contemporaries of our last two legitimate kings, Louis XVIII and Charles X. May one day soon a great fleurdelisé come back with the sovereignty of the Bourbons!
5 francs Louis XVIII (1814) - ( Source: Gallica )
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