The Gracques, named after the Gracchi brothers, are a French Social liberal think-tank. During the French presidential election of 2007, a group of former high-ranking civil servants published an open letter titled Merci, François ! ("Thank you, François!"), and signed "Les Gracques", in Le Point of 22 March 2007 The website, in French, is at [1] More information on the Wikipedia page [2]