[Satire] The Land of Thirst and Laughter

Charlie Hebdo

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Ah... eternal France, its peaceful landscapes, its tufted forests, its green pastures, where ploughed cows feed, its small villages decorated with millennia bell towers and bathed in the clear waters of a river that flows into a soft clapotis... In the summer of 2026, the tourists who came for the postcard must have been somewhat disappointed. The forests look like a pile of coal, the grass of meadows has changed into hay, the cows are in water …