Latest update: 15/05/2012 

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Why the Brits are disappointed in the French election results

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Coming up in today's Carte Blanche, Stephen Clarke explains why British and American press were trying to influence the election, to get the French to vote for their favourite candidate, Monsieur Sarkozy, and why, as usual, the French ignored the advice of the "Anglo-Saxons" and elected François Hollande.

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