French crisis "is a singular precipitate, an unprecedented alloy, between identity questions and social concussions," says Gerard Larcher. Larcher was speaking at the opening of a colloquium on the theme "European democracy in the face of crises, what role for Parliament" The President of the Senate sees in the current French crisis a crisis "of governance, without a doubt, and crisis of authority", "that of an authority that wanted to be +Jupiterian+ and vertical"