France is still overwhelmingly socialist. We are ruled by right-wing socialism, and suffer from crony capitalism, to a degree that you would not imagine.
In the presidential election coming up in May, we won't have a candidate to support the message of liberty. There is rules to avoid small candidates to be on the ballot (they want to avoid any challenger of the status-quo, and so far, they succeeded). So what we did is that we started a campaign anyway, without worrying about not being on the ballot : we choose to support Frederic Bastiat for president. And I'm not kidding. We don't have any politician who believe in free-markets, in personal liberties, in sound money, etc., like Ron Paul does. So we said : let's campaing for a Frederic Bastiat.
So we created a website for it :
http://bastiat2012.fr/ and begun creating some ads for it :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=I3ug8cwbkSM
I know, it's kind of funny to do this for a dead person. But what can we do at this point