That is because Sarko is of Hungarian descent. French can only succeed under non French leaders. Napoleon was corsican.
I was completely unaware of that and yet totally unsurprised.
“...Sarko is of Hungarian descent. French can only succeed under non French leaders. Napoleon was corsican.”
At least he wasn’t Kenyan.
“That is because Sarko is of Hungarian descent. French can only succeed under non French leaders. Napoleon was corsican.”
Sarkozy is of mixed European descent, partly Hungarian, partly French, and partly Greek. This is not atypical for France, the French population is not monolithic at all. Because France is positioned at land’s end in Western Europe, it has historically been a sort of genetic collection point for immigrants from all over Europe. France is mostly populated by persons of Germanic, Celtic, and Roman genes (and a fair degree of mixing of these), with a large boost in recent years from North Africa (Algeria primarily), although the French don’t intermarry with North Africans too much yet. As far as describing a typical Frenchman, it depends somewhat on which part of the country you’re in. I spent a fair amount of time in Normandy, and the people there greatly resemble white Americans; I found that they’re generally taller and fairer (lots of blond/light brown/red hair and blue, green or hazel eyes) than Frenchman from the Parisian area, who, on average, are shorter and tend to have darker hair and eyes. So when you’re talking about the French, you’re not really talking about a race, but rather a culture.