Hollande, Cinderella and France's New Deal

Sun, 05/06/2012 - 19:43 EDT - Forbes.com - Top Stories

Like a fractured French fairy tale ? ??think Cinderella - at midnight Sunday, Francois Hollande came to Paris to celebrate his transformation from a ?normal guy? ??into the president of France as thousands of his supporters cheered him at the legendary Place de la Bastille. At 57 years old,?? Hollande "succeeds Francois Miterrand in the ...

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