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Adrian Wainer
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 Posted-11 Jul 2006: 14:34:47    
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https://www.fil-info-france.com/actualites-monde/mitterrand-petain-photo.htm
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You are also a man of the heart, of commitment, of conviction, and that's why France admires and loves you."
From a speech by French President Jacques Chirac at the grave of French collaborator Phillipe Henri Petain.
NB I do not know if Jacques Chirac has ever visited the grave of Petain and to the best of my knowledge he never said that about Petain, I have actuallly quoted President Chirac speaking to disgraced French footballer Zinedine Zidane, but who next will Le President display gushing admiration for, Heinrich Himmler anyone?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/11/wcup11.xml&pPage=/core/Matt/pcMatt.jhtml
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In August 1944, with the cemeteries of Normandy filled with the bodies of British, Commonwealth and American troops, General de Gaulle congratulated the people of Paris on having liberated themselves.
It was in this vein yesterday that Jacques Chirac met Zinedine Zidane and extolled his heroic and iconic virtues as a Frenchman - just a few hours after he had been sent off in the World Cup final for committing one of the most blatant fouls imaginable, and after the world's media had agreed that his brilliant career as an international had ended in disgrace.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/07/11/dl1103.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/07/11/ixnews.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Philippe_P%C3%A9tain
https://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/szyk/intro/petain.htm
Best and Warm Regards
Adrian Wainer
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Edited by - Adrian Wainer on 11 Jul 2006 14:36:45
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