Nicolas Sarkozy is spending his first summer vacation as president of France in the United States. A very unusual move - and a clear rejection of his country’s anti-American biases.
PARIS — On Sunday, the French will elect their president. Strangely, foreign policy has been largely absent, so far, from the campaign. Insiders say this will be the case again tonight, when 20 million viewers will watch Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal engage in their only debate on television.
The Vichy police sent my brother to Auschwitz in 1942. He was almost nine years old. Maurice Papon, one of the Vichy officials who oversaw the round up of Jews, passed away yesterday near Paris. He was almost ninety seven years old.
