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Article: JEAN-LOUIS BOURLANGES, OR RABELAIS IN STRASBOURG.(Biography)
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- European Report
- Article date:
- June 9, 2004
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Jean-Louis Bourlanges professes "politique joyeuse" - the joy of politics. And his well-rounded figure that he so much loves to mock, his free thinking that springs from a powerful sense of debate, and his truculent humour that has frequently marked parliamentary sessions, make him a sort of Rabelais of the European Parliament, where he is standing for the fourth time, at the head of the list in his constituency.
Mr Bourlanges shares with the celebrated Renaissance writer a taste for paradox and protest: a Gaullist in 1968, when young people in France were predominantly extreme left; a renovator of the right in the 1990s when it had to take refuge in its links ...