THE THRIFTY FRENCH.
, , isJhe moderate element in French political life that votes the bulk of progressive legislation and reform. Beneath the surfaco there is great stahility," says Br. Daniels, who served as Tho Times eorrespondent in Paris for many years. "It must be borne in rnind that the French are essentially a bourgeois nation. A bourgeois has been defined by Professor Andre Siegfried as one who.has reserves. If this is aecepted, it includes among the bourgeoisie a very large part of the French people. To have a small income, to be a small proprietor, to own a small house, to run a small business, is the ideal for a people of peace-loving nature. It is the reward for a life of patient industry and self-denial, though it involves the renunciation of much that would make life casier. Francc is a nation that savcs m secret, and thrift is ingrained in the Frcnch character, When that quality of thrift is comhined with prudence and foresight, it makes for great moral and political strength. Yet the savings of the people that are sacrosanct in the phrases of the politician and even the demaffogue, are fair game for the fraudulent."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 207, 17 September 1937, Page 4
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