That I am not alone in seeing things this way I noted in an interview with the 79 year old French author Michel Deon in Le Figaro on the 16th of May 1998 in which Mr.Deon said: "Everywhere we are still in a nursery.

A great movement attempting to turn us all into half-wits (une grande campagne de cretinisation est en route).

When these are the only ones left, the governments have an easy job.

It is very clever." (SR.)] [Footnote 2208: Montaigne, Essays, book I., ch.

42: "Observe in provinces far from the court, in Brittany for example, the retinue, the subjects, the duties, the ceremony, of a seignior living alone by himself, brought up among his dependents, and likewise observe the flights of his imagination, there is nothing which is more royal; he may allude to his superior once a year, as if he were the King of Persia...
The burden of sovereignty scarcely affects the French gentilhomme twice in his life...