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						<div class="post-headline"><h1>Blog In France &#8211; 400, And Just Warming Up</h1></div>				<div class="post-bodycopy clearfix"><p>Party time &#8211; 400th blog post today! Sadly I’m full of flu so not inclined for a knees-up, but please have one on my behalf. Thanks to you all for following me. I had my best month ever in February 2012 with just under 4,000 hits and that’s brilliant!</p>
<p>Today’s title is a sort of slogan. I mentioned a few of the presidential candidates’ slogans recently and I’m returning to the theme. I discovered that Sarkozy’s <em>La France Forte</em> isn’t original. How shameful! In 1974 Valéry Giscard d’Estaing ran with <em>Il faut une France forte</em> (France must be strong). He won the election and at 48 years of age became France’s third youngest President. Sarkozy must be hoping that if it worked for VGd’E, it will work for him.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bloginfrance.com/2012/blog-in-france-400-and-just-warming-up/euros-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-3686"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3686" title="euros" src="http://www.bloginfrance.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/euros-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200" /></a>There are more echoes of previous slogans. François Hollande tells us this year that <em>Le changement, c’est maintenant</em> (Change is now). (He has been in touch for another €2 from me, by the way. This amount would allow him to get in contact another 200 people, presumably to touch them for €2 too! Cunning.) His former partner Ségolene Royale had <em>Le changement</em> as her catchphrase in the last elections in 2007. (Sarko went for <em>Ensemble, tout devient possible</em> (Together everything is possible). It was certainly possible for him to more than double his salary and spend upwards of 200 million euros on a Presidential plane, including €65,000 on special bread oven for it, that’s for sure.</p>
<p><em>La France forte</em> hints at national security, but doesn’t actually say anything. It’s what they call <em>langue du bois</em> here &#8211; wooden language. It’s soothing but vacuous &#8211; politically correct. People can bring their own meaning to it. A slogan doesn’t make a campaign anyway. It’s TV and increasingly the Internet that play the important part in winning voters these days. Slogans and posters are simply part of the package, but not very effective. You can’t really judge slogans apart from deducing after the event  that the best one is the winner’s one.</p>
<p>It isn’t cheap running a presidential campaign. In 2007 Sarko and Royale spent over €20 million each. (That seems a lot, but pales into insignificance next to the €550 million Obama spent on his in 2008.) The ‘minor’ candidates who won less than 5% of the votes were given €800,000 towards their campaign costs, and the ‘major’ ones had reimbursements of €10 million each. Aren’t taxpayers wonderful things!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bloginfrance.com/2012/blog-in-france-400-and-just-warming-up/pansies/" rel="attachment wp-att-3689"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-3689" title="pansies" src="http://www.bloginfrance.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/pansies.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="160" /></a>To finish a couple of firsts for today, 1st of March. Saw my first bee of the year and my first wasp, put on the first dollop of suncream when I was sitting outside reading the extremely enjoyable <em>Perking The Pansies</em> by <a href="http://www.perkingthepansies.com" target="_blank">Jack Scott</a> on my Kindle, and today was the first day we didn&#8217;t have a fire going in the grate from the moment we got up until we went to bed. Only just lit it now. Yes, winter&#8217;s over.</p>
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		<img alt='' src='http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/0cd49d5f16e6fc061f4677a764e8151f?s=55&amp;d=monsterid&amp;r=G' class='avatar avatar-55 photo' height='55' width='55' />		<span class="authorname"><a href='http://www.amomsyear.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>Shannon { A Mom's Year }</a></span>
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		March 1, 2012 at 7:03 pm</a>
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		<p>Congratulations, Stephanie! I&#8217;m so glad to have found your blog. You do a wonderful job of making me think AND smile. Which is a very nice combination. I&#8217;d be happy to have a &#8220;knees-up&#8221; for you, if you tell me what it is. <img src='http://www.bloginfrance.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		March 2, 2012 at 6:07 pm</a>
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		<p>Thanks for your kind words Shannon. I enjoy your blog tremendously and am always inspired by it.<br />
Blogging rocks!</p>
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		March 2, 2012 at 9:56 am</a>
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		<p>Congrats on your first 400, Steph! That&#8217;s a long warm-up&#8230;can&#8217;t wait for the race to start!</p>
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		March 2, 2012 at 6:06 pm</a>
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		<p> <img src='http://www.bloginfrance.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		March 2, 2012 at 9:57 am</a>
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		<p>Congratulations on your 400th post! Hope you can shake off the flu quickly!</p>
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		March 2, 2012 at 6:06 pm</a>
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		<p>Thank you on both counts. Feeling bit better today.</p>
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		<p>Congratulations on your 400th blog post and a fabulous February! I&#8217;m a bit confused though because aren&#8217;t you a daily blogger who has been blogging since 2009? Oh, I just looked at your archive and see that you haven&#8217;t always posted something every day.</p>
<p>I wish you a speedy recovery from the flu so that you can celebrate in style!</p>
<p>It&#8217;s rainy and grey in Paris&#8230;doesn&#8217;t feel like Spring at all.</p>
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		<p>I was an apathetic blogger in the early days, it&#8217;s true. I started blogging daily early last year, and I&#8217;m now a compulsive blogger.<br />
More lovely weather here, but snow on Monday apparently!</p>
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		<p>Hope you feel better soon!</p>
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		<p>Thanks, not so bad today, bit achey and fluey. I&#8217;ll live!</p>
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		<p>Congrats on your 400th post and very impressive readership figures. I hope you&#8217;re feeling better. It hasn&#8217;t been your week this week, what with your car breakdown as well! (Sorry, I&#8217;m reading backwards, which is how I always read magazines!) This week&#8217;s springlike weather came not a moment too son.</p>
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		<p>So it&#8217;s not just me then &#8211; I read magazines from back to front too! Had a bodgy day today to recover from yesterday. We were lucky since it could all have been so much worse &#8230;</p>
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