Today is the 232nd anniversary of the great French revolution. Time to take the temperature of the nation. The regional elections of 20 and 27 June changed nothing of France’s regional complexion, but revealed much about the worrying state of the nation.
The same regional presidents were re-elected to the 12 metropolitan regions: seven for the right, five for the left.
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