France has 1980s communications. We just got fiber in our village last year, suffering through ADSL before. Cities like Bayeux, Cherbourg and Caen in our region are still 75%-100% copper wire ADSL. That day with Ramin, we had a lot of rain, and since the amount of fiber run is the bare minimum, moisture really makes it bad. I also realized afterwards that my wife was watching TV downstairs, sapping what bandwidth we get, so I'll have to be more careful.

After you read his book, be sure to read Vincent Cronin's "Napoleon". Absolutely mind-blowing. He truly was a socialist who always served the 99%.