Minority report: a young pro-capitalist heroine shows that not all Europeans oppose economic liberty.

Last year, a crowd of 80,000 Parisians gathered to say they had had enough of a strike by transportation unions which was paralyzing their city. This counter-demonstration was organized by a tiny, cheeky free-enterprise think tank and lobby called "Liberte, j'ecris ton nom" (Liberty, I write your name). Sabine Herold, a young French woman enrolled in business school after earning a degree in political science from the University of Paris, is vice president of the group. She and her twentysomething friends present afresh face of protest in France--as proponents of individual liberty and the free market, in a country long dominated by statism and socialist sentiment. When ...