Vote for Segolene and Perks for the Idle

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MY MOTHER grew up during the Great Depression in America and she is fond of quoting a Roosevelt expression from the 1930s: the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

But France, two days away from elections, is gripped by a bizarre preelection terror. Rather than being elated that change may be coming to a country with 8.5 per cent unemployment and one of the worse brain drains in Europe, most people I know are scared to death.

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Vote for Segolene and Perks for the Idle

On Blvd St Germaine, I run into Georges and Pascal, two French friends who work in TV. We stop for coffee at Cafe Roquet....

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