THE LAUNCH event for Nicolas Sarkozy’s election manifesto on Thursday was a model of political stagecraft. With hundreds of journalists gathered in a darkened room at the Équinoxe conference centre in Paris, filtered spotlights projected the colours of the French flag onto the walls while dozens of staff handed out copies of Sarkozy’s “Letter to the French People”, a 34-page document that begins, in the president’s hand, “My dear compatriots”.
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