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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 3 / 2006  
         
  Article:   FRENCH SINGULARITIES FRANCE, ITS STATE, ITS IDENTITY AND EUROPE / SINGULARITÉS FRANÇAISES LA FRANCE, SON ÉTAT, SON IDENTITÉ ET L’EUROPE.

Authors:  JEAN-THOMAS LESUEUR.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  As shown by its history, France is essentially the political construction of its State. By that, in quite clear contrast with most of its European partners, it represents the ideal-type of the Nation-state. In its every-day contestation of the authority and legitimacy of its State and leaders, one can read not only the fatigue of its social model or the institutional balance, but obviously the questioning of its identity model. These singularities distance France from most of its European partners, better accustomed to the exercise of the diversity. These misunderstandings are the source of some of their misunderstandings. The European construction model privileged up to the present day, based on the “consensual objectives” and on the “constructive ambiguities”, has denied these fundamental identity differences. This point is not indifferent of the serious gap that the European Union is confronting at the moment  
         
     
         
         
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