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Thank you for downloading Analysis, the BBC series that examines the ideas that influence policy and trends. In this program Emma Jane Kirby

asks whether France is proof that there's an alternative to economic austerity, or

is it proof that there's not. It's wonderful that you can't go on forever providing three course meals with starters for two-year-olds.

There is a very famous French woman during the French Revolution, like Contest du Barry, and she told before killing me,

give me five more minutes.

And a lot of comments about the French policies were in the Madame du Barry policy.

Give us five more minutes. How many times could you hear that old song before you got sick of it? It was performed by Piaf in 1960, bang in the middle of Le Chondgloriers, that hallowed three-decade post-war period of bountiful

growth and high employment, and to the French it smacks of optimism of triumph of le Bozou, the good old days.

But it's a tune that's grating on Brussels,

the Berlin's and Washington's ears.

I'm Emma Jane Kirby, former BBC Paris correspondent and I've been in love with France for as long as I can remember.

I still partly live there and for years every Saturday

I've been meeting a group of Parisian friends at my local market

to talk, well to argue really about French politics, but

something's changing. My heinous Anglo-Saxon views once so rigorously

rubbish are now rarely shouted down.

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