psychology dector

For a current president, there's no better way of gaining popularity than to announce that you'll be abandoning the job. That leaves the way open to both friends and enemies to say publicly that you were a nice fellow. I wonder what would happen if he were to suddenly say: " Now that I see that more people admire me, I think I should change my mind and envisage a second term. " If ever François Hollande were to adopt this approach, I think he should be careful. I'm not very experienced in the domain of presidential counseling. I'm pleased to see that Bernard Cazeneuve has accepted the nice task of guiding both the nation and her chief to the end of an era. He's a courageous gentleman. Above all, he has been a faultless head cop, and he'll surely go down in modern French history for that. As for the outgoing president, I'm not convinced that history will store away a good image of his passage.

People who grew up in English-speaking countries often remember a school story about the French princess Marie-Antoinette . Hearing that poor people in France had no bread, the young lady said they should be told to eat cake. In the French version of this tale, "cake" is replaced by "brioche". Historians then inform us that the story is probably apocryphal. The right-wing presidential candidate Jean-François Copé started the ball rolling recently. Answering a journalist’s mundane question, Copé revealed that he was no longer aware of the price of the familiar children’s pastry known as a pain au chocolat (chocolate pastry roll). I'm not suggesting for a moment that the execution of the Austrian lady on 16 October 1793 might have been connected in any way whatsoever with her words about bread or cake or any other kind of pastry. But, just to clarify all possible misunderstandings, I take the liberty of strongly advising Copé to drop into a bakery shop and update...