Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, president of France between 1974 and 1981, has often been considered as too artistocratic. Nevertheless, I think he knows his people very well. I have just finshed his 2000 book called Les Français. Réflexions sur le déstin d’un peuple (The French. Reflections on the destiny of a nation), and it proves that…