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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48905)	8/19/2005 8:28:00 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 50167

French elite must unite with the estranged public By Dominique Moisi-FT Published: August 18 2005 20:30 \| Last updated: August 18 2005 20:30 image“I will not fiddle quietly with locks in Versailles while France is getting increasingly angry.” So said Nicolas Sarkozy on Bastille Day. By making a direct comparison between the dithering Louis XVI and the present French president, Jacques Chirac, was the ambitious interior minister implying that France was on the eve of a new revolutionary situation? Could we be in 1789 again or at least in 1788 – and would the rapid coming to power of a young, popular leader in tune with the needs and frustrations of society be the only way to prevent “the people” from taking to the streets in classical revolutionary tradition? This is of course a “wishful nightmare” on the part of a politician in a hurry.