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I agree with most of what yoy say...except for the "cultural power". If France is the most visited country in the world, there's a reason. Paris in itself is a center of culture..The Louvre is one of the largest and most culturally diverse in the world. I think France is a cultural power.
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The Louvre is actually a good example of what France is culturally these days. A place filled with people trying to take credit for stuff that was done by others 100 years ago. And they stuck their crappy modernist glass pyramid on top of it all. The most famous painting in it is by an Italian and the most famous sculpture in it is by a Greek. People didn't come there because they like the country, they came because the stuff was in France and there was no other way to get to it.
What do the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, the Notre Dame cathedral, Les Miserables, Madame Bovary, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, and champagne have in common? Their creators are all long dead, and yet the French still want to take credit for them.