The editorial of Figaro Magazine: "We are not children"

But who do they think they are? Not content with assigning the French to residence for almost two months, our leaders now believe they are authorized to teach them a lesson. One day, the Minister of Health threatens to postpone deconfinement if we are not obedient enough. Another, the government spokesperson, creates a website to tell us which are the good newspaper articles. Yet another, the Minister of the Interior explains that the faithful do not need to come together to pray. And the President himself had shown the way at the beginning of the confinement by telling the French to "read".

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We would like to respond to all these eminences that we have nothing to do with their advice. It is not because the exceptional circumstances give the State exorbitant powers that its representatives must treat us like children. "Let authority be limited to being just, we will be responsible for being happy," said the great Benjamin Constant. Even if the period

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