"He didn't leave the summit, he just briefly made himself absent," a French diplomat told journalists after Jacques Chirac's strop last night. The French president led two of his ministers out of the EU summit after a French businessman announced that he would deliver his speech in English because it was "the language of business".
The news made page two of the Sun, which has called Chirac "le worm" ever since he denounced the invasion of Iraq. Back then, it even printed an open letter to the French comparing him to a Parisian whore.
That was a shocking misjudgment. Sure, putain is an all-round insult and intensifier in France, but the country is pretty tolerant of the oldest profession, provided the woman concerned can ply her trade with panache.
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