How multilingual is France? | The Economist

“HOW can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?”, Charles de Gaulle once famously complained of France. In the wake of the bombing last week of a McDonald's restaurant in the town of Dinan in Brittany, the question is still apt. The explosion, which left one person dead, was apparently the work of Breton separatists aided by Basque separatists.

“HOW can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?”, Charles de Gaulle once famously complained of France. In the wake of the bombing last week of a McDonald's restaurant in the town of Dinan in Brittany, the question is still apt. The explosion, which left one person dead, was apparently the work of Breton separatists aided by Basque separatists.