[Ninjalawyer]

Buggy whip manufacturers, local candlestick makers and music sellers that specialize in cassettes must be steamed that they're not also getting a handout.

All joking aside, the real problem is that France is not going far enough; they're treating the symptoms rather than than the sickness, and that sickness is the future. What they need to do is declare that, in France, the year will never advance past 1990 and that all innovations since 1990 are now illegal. Only by stopping the inevitable march of time can France hope to preserve the rose-tinted view of its past culture that it is so desperately clinging to.