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World Service,1 min

Why are the French so miserable?

The Inquiry

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They are much less likely to say they are happy than those in other European countries with similar economies, says Claudia Senik, Professor at the Paris School of Economics. She argues it could be the pessimistic way they speak to each other, or the way they focus on France’s glorious past and resist change.

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