We tend to believe that most aspects of political life are uniform across western societies – except, that is, when France hits the headlines. Just think of the leap of the imagination required to conceive of a British PM with one lover at No. 10 threatening to harm herself and another installed in a love nest round the corner and waiting to move in. The bedroom farce that has been carrying on at the head of the French state since the beginning of Francois Hollande’s presidency is all the more entertaining to British readers for being utterly incogitable.
Val says interesting how one thing leads to another. Malc was reading the Guardian review in French in Le Monde. I looked it up in the Guardian to read it in English and discovered the writer Lucy Wadham who has a blog and writes about France as well as having published crime fiction novels. I have given her link http://secretlifeoffrance.com
