The Organized Decline of France
From 24% of GDP in 1980 to 9.7% in 2025: the share of industry in the French economy has been more than halved in forty years. Behind this figure are names, dates, precise political decisions, and a troubling continuity beyond changes in government. Péchiney 2003. Arcelor 2006. Alstom 2014. Alcatel 2015. Sanofi 2020. OMMIC 2023. Latécoère 2024. Each time, a French industrial flagship comes under foreign control. Each time, promises of jobs, investment commitments, “strategic partnerships.” Each time, the result is the same: loss of skills, site closures, offshoring, increased dependence.
This book is the result of a citizen’s investigative effort. It gathers, documents and puts into perspective what was ceded, by whom, to whom, and with what consequences for French sovereignty. This is not a pamphlet, nor a settling of scores: it is about looking squarely at what forty years of economic policy have produced, presidency after presidency, and understanding why.
What you will find in this book
A documented chronology of sell-offs, mergers and technological transfers that have marked the last four decades. The buyers are identified — the United States, India, the Netherlands, Finland, the United Kingdom, Australia, foreign investment funds — the strategic consequences are specified, including Arabelle turbines for nuclear power plants, aeronautical Li-Fi technology and space semiconductors, and political responsibilities are named.
The book also addresses the Chinese technological plundering documented by the French intelligence services, DGSE and DGSI: the case of the two DGSE officers convicted in 2017–2020 for delivering secrets to Beijing, the LinkedIn operation targeting 4,000 French executives, infiltrations at Dassault, the Safran/General Electric case around the LEAP turbofan engine, coordinated cyberattacks against Airbus and its subcontractors by the group “Turbine Panda,” the Valeo case, and the systematic use of French universities as entry points.
A final section returns to the removal of the crime of high treason from the French Constitution by Constitutional Law No. 2007-238 of February 23, 2007, and to the shared responsibility of elected political leaders and of the voters who successively brought them to power.
Why this book now
Taking inventory of what has been lost is not an act of nostalgia or resentment. It is a political prerequisite. One cannot restore what one has not first named and understood. This book is directly consistent with the Plan of Rupture and Restoration of the State, with the analysis of American influence in the construction of Europe, and with all the work published on this site: restoring French sovereignty requires facing the scale of what has been ceded, and drawing operational lessons for the future.
255 pages, exclusively public sources
This book relies solely on verifiable public sources: reports by the Court of Auditors, work by the Senate and the National Assembly, official communications from the companies concerned, case law and the Official Journal of the French Republic. Every claim is sourced. Every figure is documented.