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SARKOZY'S PLANS FOR FRANCE

Steven Englund

To his detractors, Nicolas Sarkozy resembles a panda-faced dwarf who rolls when he walks and stands uncomfortably at ceremonies, as if his shirt still had the hanger in it. They mock his tassled loafers (“so American”) and the way he occasionally pulls up his pants as if nobody was looking. The darkness around his eyes, they say, is not natural (like a panda’ (...)


 

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Steven Englund has been writing about France for Commonweal for nearly four decades. He is currently writing a book on comparative political anti-Semitism in Germany, Austria-Hungary, and France, in the period between 1870 and 1920.

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