PARIS -- Like every Fifth Republic president elected to rule France, Nicolas Sarkozy is something of a democrat, a demagogue, and a demigod in a nation with all the societal order of cats around tuna. This time, however, plus ca change is out the window.
Charles de Gaulle is finally dead. The Socialists are routed. Communists barely exist, and Jean-Marie Le Pen's hard-right National Front lays crippled in the compost heap of bad ideas whose time has gone.
A clear majority, from...
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