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Published in: Home4 May: I was expecting to bump into Doris Lessing
As the election campaign ends, the last instalment of Marlière Across La Manche foresees interesting but uncertain...
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Published in: Home3rd May: Nicolas Montana vs. François Mitterrand
In today’s instalment of Marlière Across La Manche, our author witnesses a cornered rabbit and celebrates a man of...
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Published in: Home2 May: May Day gate-crashing
Workers' rights on the campaign trail: today’s instalment of Marlière Across La Manche on the (mis)appropriation of May Day
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Published in: Home1 May: For Hollande, cracking jokes is no laughing matter
In today’s instalment of Marlière Across La Manche, City analysts are crying wolf at the “Mr.Normal” of French...
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Published in: Home30 April: Which infamy, Mr.President?
Sorting out the men from the boys. Today’s instalment of Marlière Across La Manche
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Published in: Home29 April: Muammar Gaddafi’s ghost bites back
Today’s instalment of Marlière Across La Manche continues with a short survey of media coverage of the French...
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Published in: Home28 April: Which Europe?
Europe has featured in most candidates’ speeches and proposals. But which one? Today’s instalment of Marlière Across...
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Published in: Home26 April: Mass rallies are back
Despite previous predictions of voter apathy and dull campaigns, we are witnessing a real presidential race — with...
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Published in: Home25 April: Marshall Pétain puts in a cameo appearance
The rapprochement of the traditional right with its extreme is progressing fast, with the “de-demonisation” of the...
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Published in: Home24 April: What will Marine Le Pen’s voters do?
The president has confessed that if he had not matched Le Pen’s hard-right rhetoric, he would by now find himself in...
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Published in: Home23 April: Nicolas Sarkozy fights for his political life
Charles de Gaulle once said that the French presidential election was “an encounter between the nation and a man”...