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| | FT.com / Arts & Weekend - Dinner with the FT: Brice Lalonde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | He stood for president in 1981, and later became Francois Mitterrand’s environment minister; he championed unleaded petrol in France and cycle paths in Paris; he has swum with whales, met Afghan warlords and attempted to halt French nuclear testing in the South Pacific from a sailing boat. |
 | | For Lalonde’s cousin “Johnny”, as his French extended family call him, is the Democratic Party’s candidate to fight George W. Bush in the US election in November. |
 | | Senator John Kerry’s mother, Rosemary, and Lalonde’s mother, Fiona, were sisters, born into a prominent Boston “Brahmin” clan, the Forbes. |
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