# French Architecture's elite has a new stupid idea

After the construction of the French Pavilion at Shanghai which has strictly nothing to say in architectural matters, here is the new proof of the little French architecture world's stupidity. They (La Cite de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine) found nothing more clever to be noticed than to plan to build a 10m tall tower made exclusively out of food in some kind of XVIIIth century nostalgia when it was pretty tasteful to play with food when most of the country was struggling to eat.
As Jerome Auzolle recalls in his letter to the Minister of Culture, currently in France, 750 000 people are obliged by their situation to survive thanks to the National Food Aid. This tower is thus a symbol of Sarkozy's France: a society where a majority struggle while a minority do not even understand what reality is made of. "If you don't have a rolex when you're fifty years old, you are a looser" said Jacques Seguela, advertiser and good friend of the President...this could be the slogan of the French government and elite...

If you want to sign the petition that attempts to avoid this food tower's construction you can follow this link (it's in French though)

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