Hints and tips:
...The writer is the FT’s Europe editor France in the Hollande Presidency: The Unhappy Republic, by John Gaffney, Palgrave Macmillan, £63/$100...
...Andy Street, chief executive of John Lewis, the British retail chain, came under fire for “French bashing” when he declared recently that France was “finished”....
...asks John Fulljames, associate director of opera for the Royal Opera, pointing out that more than 40 versions exist in opera alone....
...His girlfriend, the journalist Valérie Trierweiler, confides in the NYT, “Since then he has kept a certain taste for hamburgers.”...
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