Translate the following English sentence to French:
"It would have been a simple matter to dismiss the single currency, the so-called single currency, and put it off forever but you preferred to reduce France to the mediocre level of a general council, rather than the rank of a statesman."
Vous auriez pu, d'un revers de main, remettre la monnaie unique, prétendument unique, aux calendes grecques - mais vous avez préféré abaisser la France à un niveau médiocre, celui d'un Conseil général mais qui n'est pas celui d'un homme d'État.