They evidently never held Jacques Chirac in contempt for HIS favorite sport (les liasons), and never spoke out publicly about it as they are doing about the conservative's sin of jogging.
Not until about three weeks before the Chirac presidency began to crumble did France and the world find out publicly about his many mistresses, his illegitimate daughter by one of them, the whispers of another illegitimate child in Japan, plus the several attempted suicides of an unhappy legitimate daughter.
The leftist French intellectual and media establishments are no different than ours......tres hypocritical.
Leni
These “French intellectuals”, an oxymoron, if there ever was one, hate all things American, including individual success and accomplishment, i.e. sports.
The illigitimate daughter, named Mazarine, of all things, belonged to Francois Mitterand.
The unfortunate daughter who tried to commit suicide by throwing herself out of a window, and is now a vegetable, is Chirac’s legitimate daughter, Laurence.