The French are a strange people, if frank. They are something like Englishmen, but more continental in their élan. They have a certain je ne sais quois, but I don’t know what it is.
There are closed captions available for those of you whose French is as rusty as mine:
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.