Word: giscardian
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...Estaing, that increased the police's power to detain, search and even check identity papers almost at will. But Defferre insisted that he wanted "reinforcement of the powers of the police." In the midst of the debate, President François Mitterrand dictated the terms of peace. The Giscardian law, he declared, must go. He then ordered up new legislation giving the police similar, if not quite so sweeping, powers...
Most of Mitterrand's evenings were spent at small, informal Elysée dinners. Gone was the stiff Giscardian protoco that required the President to be served before his guests. Mitterrand's conversation at these gatherings was often far removed from electoral concerns. Recounts Brother-in-Law Hanin: "We talked about Jean Renoir and his films, theater, trees and tennis." Even as the new President was being helicoptered to his own parliamentary district, at Château-Chinon, to vote in the first round of the legislative balloting, he appeared utterly oblivious to politics, absorbed in a contemporary Japanese novel...
...palace that had contributed to a growing image of "monarchical" hauteur. In the state-run TV studio, a relaxed and animated President chatted, swiveled in his chair and consulted visual aids to make his points. His new style made a good-humored mockery of journalists' questions about the "Giscardian monarchy." Said he: "You are posing stupid questions, but I will answer them...
...last presidential election, and Chirac will not jeopardize the support of France's large capitalists by breaking ranks with Giscard's majority on any serious reform issues. The difference between them will remain in strong-arm appeal; he will oppose the rage of the lower-middle classes against the Giscardian liberalism of the upper-middle classes. To keep his political momentum going, Chirac will have to raise the rhetorical, and reactionary, stakes...
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