To: dfwgator
Let me know if you find a French politician who has any redeeming qualities. I've not been able to find one. The last French leader I had any respect for was Mitterand, who seemed to get along nicely with conservatives in the U.S., Britain and Germany. Characteristically for the French, he called himself a socialist but in practice wasn't much of one. Kinda like Chirac calling himself a rightist.
To: colorado tanker
Mitterand???? This is the same guy that said the holocaust in Rwanda was "no big deal." The guy was a pig.
34 posted on
05/16/2003 9:09:48 AM PDT by
dfwgator
To: colorado tanker
Probably the last French leader worthy of any respect was Talleyrand, and the only for his amazing ability to betray everyone, behave with consumate duplicity, and remain in power from the
ancien regime through the Revolution, the Empire and on into the Bourbon Restoration.
The last honest French leader was probably Louis IX.
41 posted on
05/16/2003 10:10:53 AM PDT by
CatoRenasci
(Ceterum Censeo [Gallia][Germania][Arabia] Esse Delendam --- Select One or More as needed)
To: colorado tanker
I think you'd have to go back to Louis XIV to find a Frenchman in a leadership position 'who has any redeeming qualities'.
He made some good chairs.
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