Cash-strapped Communists hawk treasures By Kim Willsher in Paris, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 12:56am BST 10/06/2007 It was once France's biggest political party, feared by the bourgeoisie and the CIA alike as a red menace with the power to spark another revolution. The party is considering selling Mona Lisa with Moustache Nicolas Sarkozy's sweeping victory in last month's presidential election, however, and the prospect of another landslide for his party in the parliamentary elections - with the first round today - have spelled disaster for the French Communist Party. So bad were the presidential election results that the "people's" party...
