"What?" asked Sylvain Kohn.
"France."
"That's it!" said Kohn.
"Can't be," replied Christophe. "France isn't like that."
"It's France, and Germany, too."
"I don't believe it. A nation that was anything like that wouldn't last for twenty years: why, it's decomposing already. There must be something else."
"There's nothing better."
"There must be something else," insisted Christophe.
"Oh, yes," said Sylvain Kohn. "We have fine people, of course, and theaters for them, too. Is that what you want? We can give you that."
He took Christophe to the Théâtre Français.