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  • Chirac is Les Miserables [Delicious verbal massacre of the French - MUST READ]

    07/06/2005 9:37:11 PM PDT · by nwrep · 53 replies · 2,005+ views
    SUN ^ | July 6, 2005 | MARTIN PHILLIPS
    SMUG French President Jacques Chirac’s world fell apart in just 24 hours as London won the Olympic bid and bookies’ favourite Paris was doomed. At 2pm British time on Tuesday he was crowing like a French cockerel in Singapore that “you can put your trust in France — you can trust the French.” But by 6pm yesterday — after he heard the decision as he flew in for the G8 summit at Gleneagles — it was all over. He had egg on his face as he was forced to say “I congratulate England” through gritted teeth. Cocky Chirac had...