France is entering crisis mode again. It didn’t have to be this way
- Posted on September 7, 2025
- By CNN
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France is entering crisis mode again. It didn’t have to be this way

It was a question famously asked by France’s wartime leader and former President Charles de Gaulle. “How can anyone govern a country with 246 varieties of cheese?” More than 60 years on, the answer appears to be no one.