I think it's more to do with the Quatorze Juillet French national holiday this Tuesday, which gives a lot of French people a long weekend.

> And the french are known to work very little

What are you talking about? In France unpaid extra hours is the usual thing if you work in an office even if you are paid hourly. What you say is absolutely not true in the private sector.

On the contrary , since it is our nationaly day in 4 days, french people need to work even harder today to make up for it.

It's not ok to attack a group of people like that on HN. Please don't do this again.