After the fall of French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou's government on Monday, the Talking France podcast is back with a special episode covering what's in store for France in the coming days, weeks and years. The Local France is back with a special episode of Talking France after the fall of the French prime minister. Host Ben McPartland is joined by editor Emma Pearson, journalist Genevieve Mansfield and politics expert John Lichfield
I learned a new French word on Monday. Francois Bayrou, like King Louis XV, predicted that his demise would unleash boundless chaos. Bayrou didn't say: Apres moi le deluge, he said that France faces a tohu-bohu - a word of Old Testament origin meaning a formless world incompatible with life. The next few days and week may indeed seem tohubohuesque.