French president Nicolas Sarkozy has nominated his second eldest son, the 23-year-old second year law undergraduate Jean, to be chairman of ‘La Defense’, Paris’ equivalent to the City of London. Normal?
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1. 'Le Roi, C'est Moi', as Louis XIV said! What nepotist world are we living in?
2. It’s fine: he’ll get to know the ropes soon enough, and his father-in-law is a huge businessman in France
3. Prince Jean is so bourgeois! In Spain, Zapatero’s gothic daughters would make far more amusing dynasty-builders
4. I see it as Sarkozy Jr put it himself in a recent interview: whatever he does, he will get criticised for being the president’s son
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