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| | Guardian | Spicing up France's presidential race |
 | | But whatever the reason, to the nation's huge relief, two new and unpredictable forces have burst into France's lacklustre presidential election: Bernadette Chirac, wife of the better-known Jacques, and Sylviane Agacinski, whom the very brave might dare call Mrs Lionel Jospin. |
 | | The conservative President Chirac's aristocratic, devoutly Catholic, permed and twin-suited wife Bernadette, 68, was born Bernadette Chodron de Courcel and can boast General Charles de Gaulle's aide-de-camp as an uncle. |
 | | In contrast, the Socialist prime minister's emancipated spouse, Sylviane Agacinski, is from a family of immigrant Poles. |
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