THANK YOU MR CHIRAC
Anne and I had been at an exhibition and the Quai Branly museum and had a fast walk through the Jacques Chirac exhibition. The few masks or paintings which I saw made me feel that this show was important - even very important, but on the spur of the moment, I couldn’t see why. I decided to come back but when mentioning the name of the exhibition to friends, no-one was interested. In actual fact, it was the political innuendo which probably put people off. Politically, you liked Jacques Chirac - or you didn’t. Isn’t that the same with all political figures? Chirac was elected President after Mitterand died in 1995. When his second mandate came up in 2002, it was against Jean-Marie Le Pen (far right and fascist). France definitely voted against J-MLP. I admired him for his stand against the Irak War. With the next elections, we were once again voting against a candidate. This time it was Segolene Royal or Nicolas Sarkozy …and after that we were voting against Sarkozy…do we ever vote for