How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese?

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

One cannot govern with 'buts'.

How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.