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April 21, 2012

Sarkozy a Victim of His Own Courage

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet, Daily Telegraph

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I shall be sorry to see Sarkozy go. His defeat, if it truly comes to that in two weeks’ time – and nobody should entirely discount his dogged tenacity and sheer bloody-mindedness in the face of adversity – will have been a fiasco of style over substance.

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