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Dominique de Villepin: Top of the fops

From The Independent

Published 30 January 2010

A few years ago, a French minister gave a eulogy at his mother's funeral. It was a fine speech, full of the grandest and most sonorous cadences of the French language. The bereaved minister spoke of his mother's passionate belief in the greatness and the destiny of France, and, implicitly, the greatness and destiny of her son.