@TTex600:
Clandestino is a former FBW Airbus line pilot, now flying ATR turboprops. Some clarification should be made in that what he is describing is Direct Law, where the computers pass the sidestick inputs direct to the flight surfaces.
The FBW Airbus models will not fly if the electrics are lost altogether - but this is also true of any other modern airliner you care to name.