Francophile
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Sep 11, 2026
Paul TaylorGUEST
They are ahead of the Germans in battery technology, in electric vehicle technology, and Germany is now suffering.
Peter BaleHOST
Paul, I read a piece of yours today, and I know you live in France, you're a Francophile, and it can be very easy from the outside to say, oh, the right is on the rise, and Marine Le Pen and the National Rally are the leaders of this.
Peter BaleHOST
You drew a very strong distinction between the rise of the right in Germany and the rise of the right in France.
Peter BaleHOST
And I wonder if you could deal with that very briefly and also maybe just touch on reform before I ask you a slightly more fundamental question about it that might be relevant to New Zealand, please.
IreneHOST
Now I'm going to read Easy Chair, The European Question by Pankaj Mishra.
IreneHOST
In William Maxwell's novel, The Chateau, 1961, a young Francophile American couple spends four months in Europe amid the United States' rapidly growing political, economic, and cultural hegemony.
IreneHOST
Maxwell, a fiction editor at the New Yorker, drew upon his own odd discovery of France in 1948.
IreneHOST
The novel's opening paragraphs show one of the protagonist weeping at the sight of the French shore.
Max Wolf FriedlichGUEST
Yeah, I
Ira Madison IIIHOST
mean, I was a Francophile.
Max Wolf FriedlichGUEST
He was being weird on this set even back in 2011 or whatever it was.
Max Wolf FriedlichGUEST
The thrust of the slam poem is I interned on this movie that was shooting in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and he came up to me and handed me a bunch of cash and was like, This next scene, I'm blowing these two guys in the back of this car.
Rebecca PitkinHOST
Were you...
Rebecca PitkinHOST
Are, are you quite a Francophile, or?
Mark SainsburyGUEST
Yeah, definitely holds a special place in my heart because of that, that first experience i, in Paris and, and, and the doors that that seemed to open in my mind.
Mark SainsburyGUEST
But I think then, then kind of fast-forward a few years in kind of my mid to late 20s, we'd started thinking about opening a first restaurant and that, that was, like you've mentioned, uh, the Moro.
William CohanGUEST
I didn't know what Wall Street was, but then I went to got my MBA and then got caught up in it.
William CohanGUEST
And the only place I wanted to work was Lazard because I'm a Francophile.
William CohanGUEST
And I just thought this is such an interesting, quirky place.
William CohanGUEST
And I had read The Financier by Cary Reich about Andre Maillard.
Dan SavageHOST
[laughs] ... pronunciation, wonderful city full of ...
Dan SavageHOST
I mean, I've never been, but the reputation among the gays is it's just crawling with hot uncut Francophiles.
Dan SavageHOST
Or francophones, not files, francophones.
Dan SavageHOST
[laughs] Francophones.
Sal GentileHOST
And preemptively, before anybody jumps in the comments- Every now and then, Sal, old man of the
Seth MeyersHOST
people, Sal Gentile, gets a little Francophile.
Sal GentileHOST
Before anybody jumps in the comments, you heard what Seth said.
Sal GentileHOST
I was being French about it.
Will FaulknerHOST
So how did it start?
Maeve FuryGUEST
Well, what happened was I'm a big Francophile.
Maeve FuryGUEST
So I had seen a Facebook group, a French group about the clarinet.
Maeve FuryGUEST
So I thought there's two things I'm interested in.
IreneHOST
Now I'm going to read Easy Chair, The European Question by Pankaj Mishra.
IreneHOST
In William Maxwell's novel, The Chateau, 1961, a young Francophile American couple spends four months in Europe amid the United States' rapidly growing political, economic, and cultural hegemony.
IreneHOST
Maxwell, a fiction editor at the New Yorker, drew upon his own odd discovery of France in 1948.
IreneHOST
The novel's opening paragraphs show one of the protagonist weeping at the sight of the French shore.
DrewHOST
Yes, yeah.
DrewHOST
But America has always had a Francophilic streak in her.
DrewHOST
For one, we both hate the British.
DrewHOST
French support for the American Revolution made France perhaps our first true ally.
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