Sarkozy Stays True to His Frenetic Pace

International Herald Tribune ^ | August 9, 2007 | James Kanter

[Cecily]

PARIS: Never mind the carbon footprint. Nicolas Sarkozy, France's super-active president, is crossing the Atlantic twice in the space of a day to attend a funeral in Paris on Friday and still keep his Saturday lunch date in Maine with President George W. Bush.

Sarkozy, whose decision to spend his summer break in the United States has raised eyebrows and some hackles here, has been vacationing for a week with his family at Lake Winnipesaukee in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.

He was expected to arrive in Paris on a French government jet early Friday morning, in time for the funeral of Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, the archbishop of Paris who died Sunday at 80. The funeral will take place at 10 a.m. at the cathedral of Notre-Dame amid much pomp.

Lustiger was born a Jew, never rejected his Jewish identity and has been celebrated for dedicating his career to repairing the relationship between Catholics and Jews that was shattered by World War II.

The cardinal's cousin, Arno Lustiger, 83, was to lead a reading of the Kaddish mourning prayer in Hebrew in front of Notre Dame on Friday morning.

[agere_contra]

repairing the relationship between Catholics and Jews that was shattered by World War II.

This wouldn't be the total cr*p leftwing canard about "Hitler's Pope" again?

[DanielLongo]

I’m not Catholic and that was the line that jumped out at me. Shattered? What nutjob wrote this?

[The Great RJ]

I can see why the French have a tough time adjusting to Sarkozy. His kind of drive and energy are foreign to most Frenchmen who have been lulled by decades of socialism.