Just a pleasant country gent. (Jean-Marie Le Pen's presidential campaign)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: March 12, 1988 | Copyright information

IN PREPARATION for his presidential campaign the leader of France's far-right National Front, Mr Jean-Marie Le Pen, was advised to gentrify his image. The change was part of an effort to broaden his support beyond its present core of angry rightists, disgruntled left-wingers and floating first-time voters. The burly ex-paratrooper duly went on a brutal diet and bought a wardrobe of the sort of clothes French people tend to associate with English squires. Though slightly spoiled by ...

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