I though it was a joke, when Finance Minister Christine Lagarde told the National Assembly:

“France is a country that thinks. There is hardly an ideology that we haven’t turned into a theory. We have in our libraries enough to talk about for centuries to come. This is why I would like to tell you: Enough thinking, already. Roll up your sleeves.”

But it wasn’t a joke, and yoo can read on Herald Tribune an exhaustive article about this new anti-intellectual trend: New leaders say pensive French think too much