State of the Culture: French succumb to the scourge of self-mutilation.
Tattoo Le Monde
By Theodore Dalrymple | City Journal | 9 January 2014
France is three or four decades behind Britain in cultural degeneration but is making valiant efforts to catch up. One straw in the wind I noticed a few years ago was the arrival of a tattoo parlor in the small town near where I live when I am in France. This alarmed me. I had mistakenly thought that the French had too much taste to go in for this form of self-mutilation.