One of France's potential problems is that the French military is very separated from the French society, especially the officer corps, but the soldiers too with the end of conscription. The French military is quite out there on the far right, for example. In the early '60's it was a problem, and we didn't have national crisis since ; I wonder how the French army would react to such an occasion.

Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.