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“The possibility of the renascence of an anti-Semitic (anti-Zionist) current in French opinion merging with a classical Islamic anti-Judaism, mirrors the situation of French society. Newcomers, as well as citizens showed how – for a decade now – to instr
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9 February 2012 Last updated at 20:26 ET By Christian Fraser BBC News, Paris Marine Le Pen has attempted to change the National Front's image since becoming leader in January 2011 The French presidential election, beginning in April, promises to be a clo
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A demonstrator wears a mask during a protest against French presidential candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen during a protest in Sydney, 01 May 2002. A small number of demonstrators held an anti-Le Pen rally outside the French consulate in Sydney. Far-right... View Photo »
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Emerging from a cloud of carefully-targeted baking flour at a campaign meeting on Wednesday, presidential frontrunner François Hollande shouldn’t have been all too surprised. He's not the first French politician to fall victim to a one-sided food fight.
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It's been 17 years since France last had a leftwing president, in François Mitterrand. Since then, the left has been through a number of humiliating defeats: first in 2002, when its candidate, former prime minister Lionel Jospin, didn't even make it to t
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The young man accuses "Le Grand Jacques", local hero and a rising star of French politics, of "cowardice". There is a stunned silence in the hall: then howls and boos. The interloper is the Socialist parliamentary candidate, parachuted into Corrèze by th
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French Socialist leader Lionel Jospin leaves his home 02 June 1997 in Paris before heading for the Elysee Palace where he was scheduled to meet French President Jacques Chirac, after his leftwing alliance won the legislative elections 01 June 1997. View Photo »
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The Socialist candidate for France's presidency attempted to consolidate his front-runner status on Sunday with a pledge to pull French troops out of Afghanistan and to combat international financial speculators that he blamed for much of the country's p
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A chronology of key events: 1789 - French Revolution ends rule of monarchy going back to 9th century; followed by establishment of the First Republic. Napoleon Bonaparte was renowned for his military victories across Europe Born in 1769 in Corsica Defeat
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