BBCNEWS BBC News October 3, 2021 12:27:00
And very much the classic larger—than—life figure and a very interesting figure and an important figure i think in modern france. the story briefly is that he is a self—made man, made millions, came from nowhere, it became a politician on the left but reconciled, if you like, his left—wing instincts and background with the idea of being rich being ok and in that sense, was a very modern man, before that businesspeople had been on the right and catholics, but he was a man of the people who became rich, very rich, became a tycoon, but kept in touch with the masses from whence he came. th...