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...Scholar and a Gentleman James Graff's profile of François Bayrou [March 26], although most interesting, seemed to give an unfair and somewhat distorted impression of the French presidential candidate's intellectual background. I am writing here as an academic, not a politician. Bayrou is a farmer's son, for sure, and a gentleman farmer, probably. But while he is no product of a French administrative or political grande école, he is a doctor of literature. He is, therefore, quite an erudite individual. No nitwit! And an excellent, learned writer in his own right. Françoise...
What's in Store for '07 In your discussion on the upcoming French presidential elections in the What's Next package [March 19], you neglected to mention the role of François Bayrou, the popular leader of the Union for French Democracy and former Education Minister. He has been rising in the polls more rapidly than Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal and is positioned to determine who will be France's next President. He will be able to sway votes to either Sarkozy or Royal-or even become Jacques Chirac's successor. Michael Bayer...
What's in Store for '07 In your discussion on the upcoming French presidential elections in the What's Next package [March 19], you neglected to mention the role of François Bayrou, the popular leader of the Union for French Democracy and former Education Minister. He has been rising in the polls more rapidly than Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal and is positioned to determine who will be France's next President. He will be able to sway votes to either Sarkozy or Royal - or even become Jacques Chirac's successor. Michael Bayer...
True, that judgment would have been harder to make in the early 1990s. Then, Jacques Delors was the President of the European Commission, the single currency was being planned, and François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl were shaping European policy. It seemed certain that political union would follow the economic variety and the E.U. become a second democratic Atlantic superpower. But that dream was curdled by European dithering in the Balkan wars and by the concomitant realization that European electorates had no stomach for displays of superpowerdom as they have been conventionally measured: that is to say, in killing...
...François Bayrou insists he has nothing to prove. His life story suggests otherwise. The leader of the centrist Union for French Democracy (UDF) and for many years a minor presence in the rarefied world of French politics, Bayrou has emerged as a serious contender for the country's presidency. He has done so in spite of his homespun background. A smallholder's son from the Pyrenees, saddled with a stutter as a kid, he never rounded off his résumé at one of France's prestigious grandes écoles as many politicians...