Fascinating work and write-up. This is like a vignette of France: weaponized mauvaise-foi, sacred institutions and, more generally, some remnants of an aristocratic hierarchy, and also probably a lot of honest technical incompetence.
According to my brother, who has had extensive dealings with them, accountability to the public at large is anathema to French civil servants. Instead, they consider themselves beholden to the professional standards and administrative hierarchy of their respective institutions.
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