“Only justice will guide our actions.” So went a favored slogan of French president François Hollande during his successful election campaign this past spring. Ever since, Hollande and his most equitable team of seventeen male and seventeen female ministers have repeated that France’s longstanding European and international financial commitments would indeed be met—but “justly,” in contrast to the hash left by the preceding government. Last week, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault delivered his “discours de politique générale” (something like a State of the Union or Throne Speech), providing the government its first opportunity to specify exactly what this justice agenda would be.
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