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French Ingrigue, Skulduggery and Betrayal in Progress
2005-06-09
PARIS has been riveted this week by a tale of intrigue, skulduggery and betrayal that a Jacobean playwright might have entitled The Revenge of Nicolas.

On one side is Nicolas Sarkozy, 50, leader of President Chirac's UMP (Union for a Popular Majority) party, who is the bitter rival of the Republican "monarch" and the dynamic star of French politics. Eight months after M Chirac banished him from government, M Sarkozy has made a surprise return as Interior Minister in the aftershock of voters' rejection of the European constitution.

On the other is M Chirac's camp, under the command of Dominique de Villepin, 51, the new Prime Minister and outgoing Interior Minister. Also involved are the secret security service DST, Cécilia Sarkozy, 47, the politician's glamorous wife and chief adviser, and her alleged lover, a Moroccan-born events organiser.
Posted by:too true

#11  UMP.... +
CHirac =
CHUMP
Posted by: Glealet Ebbinetch8536   2005-06-09 15:44  

#10  Yes, yes, yes, but what kind of cheese does he prefer?
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2005-06-09 10:50  

#9  Cazarts! Thanks JFM all this and a Pied Noir involved. We're only missing a chambermaid and the Bum Squad.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-06-09 10:23  

#8  I thought France was going broke. If everybody is stabbing everybody at decision levels will it speed up or slow down going broke?
Posted by: 3dc   2005-06-09 09:50  

#7  M Sarkozy had paraded Cécilia and Louis, their eight-year-old son, in a very un-French way to boost his presidential prospects. “I warned him that all this American-style publicising his family would come back to bite him one day,”

This was his real crime, and for it, the press and the powers that be all agree he must be destroyed!

The French and the Arabs are all on the same page. The essence of life is to blame the Americans and Jews for the fact that you found it necessary to rob your own people.
Posted by: 2b   2005-06-09 08:49  

#6  "French Ingrigue, Skulduggery and Betrayal in Progress" -- This is news? I thought we were supposed to post news items.
Posted by: Tom   2005-06-09 08:31  

#5  The alleged lover is not from Morroccan origin but, like myself, a Pied-Noir, ie a French born in North-Africa from European parents.

Posted by: JFM   2005-06-09 08:30  

#4  The popcorn graphic would go well here.
Posted by: Jackal   2005-06-09 08:10  

#3  well I liked the word "skulduggery" it made me want to read it!
Posted by: anon1   2005-06-09 08:07  

#2  I agree. "French" would have sufficed.
Posted by: ed   2005-06-09 07:27  

#1  The headline for this article is a tad redundant.
Posted by: JerseyMike   2005-06-09 07:12  

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