Wake Up! is an alarm call. It calls for a collective awareness of the real state of affairs in France and the urgency of the need to change it. France is on the eve of a major collapse which could bring on a European collapse. It has sacrificed its tools of production to its welfare state. It has impoverished its people. It has cut itself off from modernity and locked itself up in its glorious past. We must stop denying that problems exist; they must be identified and dealt with. We must mobilize our citizens, reform France and reinvent Europe. What one generation has destroyed, another can rebuild.
(Fayard, 2012)