Word: elyse
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As he is ushered to his official car, the old man turns and flashes a Delphic smile. "I'm the last of the grand presidents," he says matter-of-factly. "After me, there will be no others in France." Thus spoke François Mitterrand, obsessed with his place in...
And in Paris' highest court last week, Mitterrand came off as a paranoid liar. Since last November, 12 former officials and police officers have been on trial, accused of wiretapping at least 150 people during the initial years of his presidency. The court showed a tape filmed by two Belgian...
Yet Mitterrand's nobler initiatives are in the air these days as well, particularly in foreign policy. Next week sees the publication of the French edition of an award-winning work by German historian Tilo Schabert, the result of three years of unprecedented access to Elysée files and...
When he took charge of the Finance Ministry in April, Nicolas Sarkozy had one goal: to kick-start the stalled French economy. Boosting consumer spending seemed an obvious place to start. But Sarkozy, as always, was in a hurry: instead of spending months trying to push through a complex legislative...
(2 of 3) He is an unlikely success story. The son of a Hungarian immigrant, he eschewed the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, which traditionally trains the country's administrative, business and political élite. Instead, he studied political science at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris, and later law...