HeyJaredSimon Heffer
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No one wants François Hollande to return as president of France (opens the original)
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The Socialist is reportedly considering a running in 2027 An amusement of the French presidential election system – and, sometimes, if you didn’t laugh, you would cry – is the ragtag and bobtail who put themselves forward as candidates, all but two of whom are eliminated in the first round. Earlier in the Fifth Republic the casualties would be those from obscure fringe parties. However, one of the great changes in French politics in the last 15 years, notably since Emmanuel Macron invented his o
France turns to de Gaulle amid today’s mediocre politics (opens the original)
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Columnist Simon Heffer considers the success of a new film on the wartime figurehead French cinemas were packed out this summer by audiences lapping up a two-part film history of the wartime exploits of General de Gaulle, directed by Antonin Baudry. I have seen only the first part – La Bataille de Gaulle: L’Age de fer – which takes the story to early 1943, just after the assassination of Admiral Darlan in Algiers. Simon Abkarian, who plays de Gaulle, catches the General’s mannerisms as well as h
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