Austerity-weary French turn on once-favoured Hollande

Hanging off lampposts, waving flags, lighting flares and cheering wildly, tens of thousands of supporters of François Hollande crammed into the Place de la Bastille in Paris at midnight a year ago to greet France’s first socialist president in almost two decades. “I will live up to your hopes,” h…

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Austerity-weary French turn on once-favoured Hollande