France is not Imperial Rome, where panem et circenses made a fundamental difference. It is a weakened democracy mired in an economic and social crisis so deep that it verges on becoming an identity crisis.
第二点更加明显，那就是现实不可能因为一场精彩的公共表演而改变。法国不是罗马帝国，面包和游戏（panem et circenses）就能造成根本性的不同。法国是一个削弱了的民主国家，困于深刻的经济和社会危机，站在身份危机的边缘。