Be not too hasty to condemn that giant, literal and metaphorical, of French cinema, Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu, chevalier de la Légion d’honneur, for his apparent willingness to ditch French citizenship for Russian over a tax bill (though he has yet formally to confirm his acceptance of Vladimir Putin’s offer). Au contraire. After all, might his “mercenary, unpatriotic” act not appear in a somewhat different light had he chosen Irish citizenship over Russian?
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