

2015: France’s annus horribilis
Looking back at 2015, this is a year that has rightly earned the name annus horribilis, or put simply, it’s been a truly horrible year. The savage raid on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, the Germanwings tragedy and the November 13 attacks across Paris. A terrifying sequence of events that have cast a menacing shadow across the nation. A nation already preoccupied with its own homegrown problems, with its stagnating economy, lame president and the alarming rise of the