I didn’t hire François Hollande, and the rest is history – by Pierre Briançon
▻http://www.politico.eu/article/france-election-francois-hollande-a-little-joke-job-interview-political-obi
For decades, men like Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, François Mitterrand or Jacques Chirac left the younger members of their party only small crumbs to feed their ambitions. As they were busy governing, the underlings were consumed by the small-town maneuvers and cynicism that, for them, came to encapsulate what politics is all about.