| ID | 113174 |
| Title Proper | Coda |
| Other Title Information | mine eyes have seen the glory |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Andelman, David A |
| Publication | 2012. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | PARIS-We are eight at a long, leisurely lunch in the charming 14th arrondissement apartment just off the Place Denfert-Rocherot. Our host is a Le Monde journalist whose long career has taken him from Cambodia in the last days of the Indochina wars and the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge to John Major's London and to Washington, straddling Clinton and Bush. The afternoon begins with a fabulous hard yellow cheese and a rich white wine from Catalonia down by the Pyrenees separating France from Spain where our hosts have their country cabin. The dishes are passed around, the wine glasses filled and refilled, the main course, a succulent cassoulet de canard and all the trimmings. But the centerpiece, as is the case these days when any two or more Europeans gather, is the Presidentielles-the national elections for the first new President de la Republique in five years. The first round will be held in just 11 weeks. This watershed vote comes amidst another downward spiral in a French economy already battered by the three-year global recession. These two all but inseparable subjects, fused into a complexity only the French can master, continue to mesmerize this nation that, even in the best of times, never takes its politics in stride. |
| `In' analytical Note | World Policy Journal Vol. 29, No.1; Spring 2012: p.112-121 |
| Journal Source | World Policy Journal Vol. 29, No.1; Spring 2012: p.112-121 |
| Key Words | Indochina Wars ; Cambodia ; Nicolas Sarkozy ; Francois Hollande |