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Candour from Chirac, except about alleged corruption

WITH HIS successor smarting from poor mid-term opinion polls and fighting to reassert himself after a series of setbacks, former president Jacques Chirac returned this week to the national stage he bestrode for three decades with the publication of the... Full Article at Irish Times

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