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5:21 PM, June 4, 2007 | Comments (0)
It's official: France now has the hairiest government in recent memory. While previous government leaders have tended to grayness and baldness, President Nicolas Sarkozy has brought change on the follicular as well as the political front. It's not that...

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  • Sarkozy's Housing Crunch

    Eric Pape | Feb 28, 2007 12:37 PM
    There are certain truisms about life in the big city: housing is expensive, and any trip abroad can be ruined by trouble back home. So it was that Nicolas Sarkozy, who was campaigning in front of 2,000 French expatriates in Madrid on Tuesday evening,... More
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  • Sarkozy in Spain: Tense Talks

    Eric Pape | Feb 27, 2007 10:19 AM
    Conservative presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy may endure some uncomfortable moments while visiting Madrid today in his guise as France's current minister of the interior. Sarkozy, who will also make a campaign stop to visit Madrid's French expat... More
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  • Will the French Buy Bayrou?

    Tracy McNicoll | Feb 27, 2007 09:58 AM
    "Stop making these promises that we cannot pay for. Electoral campaigns are no longer won with promises!" -- François Bayrou's message to Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal last night on "I Have a Question For You." Presidential candidate François... More
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  • Torpedo Politics

    Tracy McNicoll | Feb 27, 2007 07:58 AM
    How many nuclear attack submarines are there in the French navy? No, this isn't a joke. Nor a trick question. But you'd be forgiven for thinking so. In a live interview Monday, Nicolas Sarkozy said, "Four." In fact, there are ten nuclear subs altogether:... More
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  • Campaign Style: Star Turns

    Eric Pape | Feb 27, 2007 07:24 AM
    The moment was pure Hollywood: a beloved actor invites a presidential hopeful on stage and cracks a few fond jokes before lending a little of his star power to the campaign. You've watched this scene many times before, for sure. But this time all the... More
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  • Update on The Numbers Game

    Christopher Dickey | Feb 26, 2007 04:49 PM
    What a difference a week makes. Last Sunday, the weekly poll in the Journal du Dimanche had Nicolas Sarkozy well ahead of Ségolène Royal, with a six-point spread, 53-47, in the second round. This week there's no air between them at all, statistically... More
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  • Le Pen's Labyrinth

    Eric Pape | Feb 26, 2007 03:54 PM
    Jean-Marie Le Pen, speaking to an impassioned gathering in the faded industrial town of Lille on Sunday, sounded by turns ferociously nationalist, vaguely socialist, and occasionally surreal. Over thunderous applause from 2,500 supporters the far-right... More
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  • Sarkozy: Leader of the Pack

    Tracy McNicoll | Feb 26, 2007 03:36 PM
    Who let the dogs out? Nicolas Sarkozy's slick campaign team prides itself on flooding the airwaves with quick and cutting punditry on the opposition's latest efforts. The day after Ségolène Royal's star turn on the "I Have a Question For You" TV program... More
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  • Polls: Rigging the Headlines?

    Tracy McNicoll | Feb 22, 2007 07:24 AM
    She's up, she's down, she's a hopeless case - no, she's back in the race, she's in the lead! If you followed the headlines drawn from French opinion polls over the last couple of weeks you'd have the impression Socialist candidate Ségolène Royal was... More
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  • Perspective: Eric Besson

    Christopher Dickey | Feb 21, 2007 04:25 PM
    "The left is headed straight for a wall, like in 2002 . Except this time with its eyes open and honking the horn." --Socialist deputy Eric Besson, who resigned from his post as the party's national secretary for the economy last week.... More
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  • Issues: Lullaby to a Lost Generation?

    Tracy McNicoll | Feb 21, 2007 04:11 PM
    Is 2007 the last gasp for a lost generation? Seventy-six percent of French polled last year believed that today's young people have a much smaller "chance to succeed" than their parents did. The French press has dubbed the baby-boomers' children " les... More
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  • Images: Clothes Calls

    Tracy McNicoll | Feb 21, 2007 12:54 PM
    Jean-Christophe Lagarde, a conservative deputy, had this to say about Ségolène Royal's appearance on the nationally televised town-hall-style program called "I Have a Question for You." "Le Parisien" newspaper: "What else struck you?" Lagarde: "Her... More
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  • Islam, Integration and Assimilation

    Eric Pape | Feb 20, 2007 05:56 AM
    For many immigrants and their children and grandchildren in France, it's hard to feel like equal partners in the republic's promises of liberty, equality and fraternity. Slapdash immigration policies, persistent racism and skewed economic opportunities... More
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  • The Shadow of 2002

    Tracy McNicoll | Feb 20, 2007 05:32 AM
    France 's political establishment is still reeling from the surprise punches it took in 2002. The presidential election five years ago drew world attention, led to national soul-searching, and in many ways shaped this year's campaign. Remember the times.... More
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  • Perspective: Pierre Assouline

    Christopher Dickey | Feb 19, 2007 06:36 AM
    At the end it was recalled that if there was something unquestionably Joan of Arc about her, there was something of the little Napoleon about the man opposite her. -- Novelist, biographer and blogger Pierre Assouline writing about candidates Ségolène... More
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  • French Elections: A User's Guide

    Paul Waldschmidt | Feb 11, 2007 04:53 AM
    Two rounds and you're out -- or in! The fight for the Elysée Palace can look like a free-for-all, with more than a dozen candidates who don't pull punches and often hit below the belt to secure their place as the next French president. Here are the basic... More
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  • Candidate Profile: Ségolène Royal

    Paul Waldschmidt | Feb 10, 2007 03:35 PM
    Royal, 53, is the campaign's big surprise. Considered an extreme long-shot only 18 months ago, she won a landslide victory in the Socialist primary last November. Her emphasis on "participative democracy" appealed to grass-roots voters alienated from... More
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  • Candidate Profile: Nicolas Sarkozy

    Paul Waldschmidt | Feb 10, 2007 01:10 PM
    Sarkozy, 52, has never made a secret of his ambitions. This tough-talking interior minister and head of the right-wing UMP party has used President Jacques Chirac's entire second term to set up his own run for the country's top job. The son of an aristocratic... More
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  • Candidate Profile: François Bayrou

    Paul Waldschmidt | Feb 9, 2007 04:14 PM
    Bayrou, 55, could be a spoiler in 2007. A farmer's son from a Pyrenean village, Bayrou studied literature and was a professor before turning to politics. Elected to the National Assembly in 1986, he was minister of education from 1993 to 1997 under two... More
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  • Candidate Profile: Jean-Marie Le Pen

    Paul Waldschmidt | Feb 9, 2007 03:46 PM
    Jean-Marie Le Pen, 78, leader of the far-right National Front, first ran for president in 1974, when he scored 0.74 percent of the vote. The sharp-tongued rabble-rouser, often accused of racism, has weathered ferocious verbal attacks and worse, including... More
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  • Other Candidates

    Paul Waldschmidt | Feb 8, 2007 11:50 AM
    At the beginning of February there were 46 declared presidential candidates for the 2007 election. That number will shrink considerably by mid-March as some of them clear the bureaucratic hurdles and others fall away. But Jean-Marie Le Pen's shock upset... More
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  • Candidates on the Web

    Paul Waldschmidt | Feb 2, 2007 03:13 PM
    Candidate blogs and political party sites: François Bayrou http://www.bayrou.fr/ http://www.udf.org/index.html Jean-Marie Le Pen http://www.lepen2007.fr/ http://www.frontnational.com/ Ségolène Royal http://www.desirsdavenir.org/ http://www.parti-socialiste.fr/... More
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    Paul Waldschmidt | Feb 1, 2007 05:04 PM
    Politicians: The Third Man , February 19, 2007 Once again, Le Pen is poised to play the spoiler in France 's elections. ' Age Hasn't Softened Me ,' February 16, 2007 Jean-Marie Le Pen, France 's confrontational far-right leader, is getting ready to rock... More
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