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Originally Posted by Savorgnan
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Someone invented a famous ironic phrase about Chirac's way of governing the French. In English it's something like: "He is their chief, so he follows them" ("Il est leur chef, donc il les suit!").
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That is one of my favourite things about the French; their ability to come up with sharp, short phrases which hit their target dead centre. "Euro Disneyland is a cultural Chernobyl" is another fine example.