Actually, there is no problem with that kind of policies even if it doesn't look right as long as the map of the local economies targeted don't recover a more ethnic map. How to get from here to there is to look at the French Ministry of Culture policies over the same period to find out if any support had been enacted to compensate the undesirable consequences of the centralized economic policies or if the "culture" policies were also pursuing the same goals during that same period.

If both set of policies were enacted to pursue the decline of the Cultures and Economies the FCNM wish to protect, think there is something there that can be profitable there in the prosecution. Am I understandable ?