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  Dominique de Villepin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Galouzeau de Villepin family is among these, since the Galouzeau, a family of commoners originally from the Yonne département, added "de Villepin" to their name in the early 18th century by the marriage of a Galouzeau ancestor with a woman from a seemingly aristocratic de Villepin family of Lorraine.
Accordingly, Villepin's great-grandfather was a colonel in the French army, his grandfather was a board member for several companies and his father, Xavier de Villepin, now retired, was himself a diplomat and a member of the French Senate.
Villepin then became director of Chirac's successful 1995 presidential campaign and was rewarded with the key job of Secretary-General of the Élysée Palace during his first term as President of the Republic (1995-2002).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Villepin   (2766 words)

  
 Telegraph | Opinion | Surrender flunkey
As he struts the corridors of French power, de Villepin is, they say, as likely to be turning over in his premier cru mind some nugget of literature or philosophy as he is to be concentrating on the ephemeral crisis of the hour.
De Villepin is often described as an "aristocrat" but this son of a colonial businessman and politician is not some scion of Bourbon bloodlines or château-owning privilege.
De Villepin has become prime minister just as the electorate has indicated its firm displeasure with the political elite, yet there is possibly no greater exponent of elitist government than this vainglorious strutter.
opinion.telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/06/05/do0510.xml   (1171 words)

  
 Dominique de Villepin,
Dominique de Villepin, - Dominique de Villepin, French public official, was named prime minister in May. He replaced...
Dominique De Villepin écoute les explication d'un fonctionnaire de police jeudi soir à Créteil Dominique de Villepin a ent.
Dominique de Villepin en Israël le 24 juin Le ministre français des Affaires Etrangères Dominique de Villepin se rend à pa..
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0907969.html   (318 words)

  
 America's Debate -> Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin
Villepin, 51, moves from the Interior Ministry to replace Jean-Pierre Raffarin, dumped after voters Sunday roundly rejected Chirac's call to ratify a European Union constitution, humiliating the 72-year-old president — a leading proponent of the charter.
Unemployment is running at 10 percent and the French political establishment is reeling from the referendum vote that was as much a repudiation of Chirac's economic and social policies as it was a refusal of the EU treaty.
De Villepin happens to be both reliable to Chirac (he's literally the son Chirac never had!) and has an obvious aura of power thanks to his work at the UN in 2003 against the war in Iraq.
www.americasdebate.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=10078   (981 words)

  
 Dominique de Villepin,
Villepin was an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq, and he infuriated many members of the Bush administration who considered his protestations inflexible and arrogant.
Dominique de Villepin, - Dominique de Villepin, French foreign minister, emerged as one of the most outspoken critics of...
Dominique de Villepin et Alvaro Uribe le 29 novembre à Bogota Lors de son voyage à Bogota vendredi, Dominique de Villepin,.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0931560.html   (326 words)

  
 Telegraph | Opinion | A rhyme for cheese-eating?
De Villepin cites as his ideal hero-poet Arthur Rimbaud - the patron saint of misunderstood adolescents in bed-sits around the world.
And speaks highly of Gerard de Nerval, the proto-Surrealist and founder member of the Club des Hachichins, who hanged himself from a window-grating in drug-addled despair at the condition of the world.
Villepin also admires the certified madman Antonin Artaud, whose late work, characterised by delusions, hallucinations, glossolalia and violent anti-American tantrums, has been described as "a heretic's scatalogical tirade at the extreme of the linguistic lunatic fringe".
www.portal.telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2003/05/25/do2508.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/05/25/ixportal.html   (651 words)

  
 Dominique de Villepin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin is the most vocal in his opposition to the Bush administration's attempt to rationalize the need for war.
Dominique de Villepin, the French foreign minister, says: “There is an alternative to war: disarming Iraq through inspections.
French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin outlines a proposal he will submit to the UN on February 26, which calls for Aristide's resignation and recommends that an international security force be dispatched to Haiti to help stabilize the country.
www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=dominique_de_villepin   (3774 words)

  
 Whos is Dominique Galouzeau de Villepin ?
Villepin's political essay is driven by a deep fear that France will be unable to adapt to the post-cold war world or compete in the global market¬place, where the advantages and subsidies granted by the state to French companies would be subjected to international scrutiny and possibly banned.
Villepin's answer for France's ills is to revive the "French model" of government from the top down, as opposed to the American model of gov¬ernment from the bottom up.
Villepin's solution is an authoritarian state-the "republican monarchy" established by de Gaulle, ruled by a charismatic leader who, like Napoleon, will "vanquish or die" in pursuit of glory.
www.hamrablues.com /archive/sidebars/july_01_05_dominique_villepin.html   (1352 words)

  
 Interview: Dominique de Villepin
DOMINQUE DE VILLEPIN: Well, of course, but let me remind you that in 1441 there is two stages and President Jacques Chirac gave the inspiration of the resolution 1441 at the beginning of September.
DOMINIQUE DE VILLEPIN: You’re right, the pressure, of course, of the army, the American army, the British army on the ground, is very important in order to give and to show the will of the international community.
DOMINIQUE DE VILLEPIN: You see, the pressure that is put on Iraq is by the threat of the international community.
sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/political_transcripts/article_1230.asp?MSID=c31ef3e690544fd19e39cea720d273e4   (1811 words)

  
 BBC - Press Office - Dimbleby Lecture Dominique de Villepin
Dominique de Villepin, the French Foreign Minister, reveals his vision for the future of relations between the French and British when he delivers the 28th Dimbleby Lecture this Sunday on BBC ONE.
Villepin stresses that: "there will be no Europe without European defence, and no European defence without Britain" and underlines the importance of the ongoing joint efforts with the UK and Germany to achieve resolution of Iranian proliferation crisis.
Domique de Villepin is the first Dimbleby lecturer to speak whilst still actively serving in government.
www.bbc.co.uk /pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/10_october/17/dimbleby_villepin.shtml   (448 words)

  
 Profile: French PM Dominique de Villepin - (United Press International)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
That means tall, aristocratic de Villepin -- a man schooled in the country's most elite establishments, who has never faced a rough-and-tumble election -- is tasked to address the angers of millions of ordinary French, who issued a protest vote against the government Sunday by rejecting the European constitution.
De Villepin has "the authority, the competence and the necessary experience" to give the government "a new impulse" Chirac said in a televised address Tuesday night, as he explained his choice of a new prime minister.
The job de Villepin reportedly coveted -- that of interior minister -- was handed to his chief rival Nicolas Sarkozy.
www.washtimes.com /upi-breaking/20050601-110317-8645r.htm   (1042 words)

  
 WHO'S WHO: Dominique de Villepin
Dominique de Villepin was born 14 November 1953.
A career diplomat, Dominique de Villepin graduated from the prestigious Ecole Nationale d'Administration and served in Delhi and twice in Washington.
Villepin was appointed secretary general of the presidency in 1995, a position he occupied until 2002.
www.novinite.com /view_news.php?id=48228   (374 words)

  
 Chirac Names Dominique de Villepin new Prime Minister » Outside The Beltway | OTB
Dominique de Villepin is France's new Prime Minister.
De Villepin, a close ally of Chirac for several years, was previously Interior Minister.
Most Americans will remember de Villepin best as the Foreign Minister who would not even go so far as to say that he hoped the Americans were victorious over Saddam Hussein.
www.outsidethebeltway.com /archives/10762   (322 words)

  
 ¡No Pasarán!: French Diplomacy, as Embodied by Dominique de Villepin
Villepin has carefully avoided challenging the general view of his reviewers that the shark is a metaphor for the United States while the seagull represents France.
Villepin's work can be seen as an extended manifesto for his claim on the presidency, a post for which a certain intellectual and literary distinction has long been desirable.
The Socialists' defeat in 2002 paved the way for Villepin to become foreign minister, an appointment initially welcomed in Washington, where Villepin had graced the French embassy during the Reagan years and was thus somehow assumed to be unusually sympathetic to American ways.
no-pasaran.blogspot.com /2005/05/french-diplomacy-as-embodied-by.html   (2766 words)

  
 Middle East Online
PARIS - Iraq is currently in a state of "decomposition" that will not be reversed until the Iraqi people recover their sovereignty, French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said in a radio interview Friday.
De Villepin also told the private RTL radio station that a new UN resolution in which Washington was asking for other countries to bolster its occupying forces would simply "see the cycle of violence worsen".
To put an end to all that, de Villepin said, the authority of Iraq's US-appointed interim Governing Council should be strengthened, then elections should be set up "perhaps by the end of the year" to put in place a provisional government.
www.middle-east-online.com /english?id=6849   (624 words)

  
 The America that will vote for Bush, by Tom Frank
This species of leftist will boast about the historical deeds of red-diaper babies or the excellent radical pedigree of so-and-so, son of such-and-such, utterly deaf to the repugnant similarities between what they are celebrating and simple aristocracy.
Here he was, a well-dressed and accomplished man, soundly refuting the arguments of the Americans, speaking several different languages, even receiving open applause from the UN representatives of much of the world as he berated the US Secretary of State, who stoically endured the abuse of his social superior, for this obvious error or that.
What the brilliant De Villepin missed utterly was that American conservatives don’t care when their arguments are refuted.
mondediplo.com /2004/02/04usa   (2511 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Profile: Dominique de Villepin
The silver-haired politician, once referred to as a "diplomatic pin-up" by a newspaper, cuts a dashing figure in the often grey world of French politics.
After a stint as foreign minister at the Quai d'Orsay, Mr de Villepin was appointed interior minister in March 2004 and tackled radical Islam head-on.
A career diplomat, Mr de Villepin graduated from the prestigious Ecole Nationale d'Administration and served in Delhi and twice in Washington.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/2768503.stm   (505 words)

  
 CNN.com - Villepin named new French PM - May 31, 2005
Villepin is a long-standing Chirac loyalist and was once his top adviser.
Villepin had been widely tipped to replace the unpopular Raffarin, whose economic reforms and poor record on jobs were blamed for the scale of Sunday's referendum defeat.
Chirac is the second French leader, after Gen. Charles de Gaulle, to lose a referendum since the founding of the French Fifth Republic in 1958.
www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/europe/05/31/france.eu   (903 words)

  
 Pejmanesque: MEMO TO DOMINIQUE DE VILLEPIN
I imagine that dominique is afraid to fight back or to stand up to terrorism because he has been paid off and or is just weak by nature in general.
I was going to comment on this clown Dominique de Villepin's lousy comments about my President George W. Bush, but it looks like I couldn't say what I wanted to because of "Your comment could not be submitted due to banning".
Dominique de Villepin and his boss, whose government is deeply involved in the U.N. corruption "Oil for Food" program, seems to be at the Heart of it's policy of not supporting the war on Terror and the elimination of those, like Saddam, who ruthlessly kill millions of inoccent civilians, seem to forget fast.
www.pejmanesque.com /archives/002868.html   (678 words)

  
 France
Madagascar claims Bassas da India, Europa Island, Glorioso Islands, and Juan de Nova Island; Comoros claims Mayotte; Mauritius claims Tromelin Island; territorial dispute between Suriname and the French overseas department of French Guiana; France asserts a territorial claim in Antarctica (Adelie Land); France and Vanuatu claim Matthew and Hunter Islands, east of New Caledonia.
De Gaulle took France out of the NATO military command in 1967 and expelled all foreign-controlled troops from the country.
De Gaulle's government was weakened by massive protests in May 1968 when student rallies became violent and millions of factory workers engaged in wildcat strikes across France.
www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0107517.html   (2005 words)

  
 CNN.com - France 'cannot accept ultimatum' - Mar. 17, 2003
The U.S. president is ready to make his final effort to extract a resolution from the U.N. Security Council that would produce an ultimatum for Iraq.
Villepin reiterated France's position that it is still possible to disarm Iraq peacefully, noting that U.N. weapon inspections are working.
Villepin also said there was no evidence of a link between Iraq and the al Qaeda terror network.
www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/03/17/sprj.irq.france   (480 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | France warns against Iran action
Mr De Villepin sketched out a French vision of a radically different approach to foreign policy in which differences of culture, society and religion should be weighed alongside questions of security.
Mr De Villepin's remarks underline the continuing differences between France, which led European opposition to the Iraq war, and Washington and London.
After his visit, it was announced that Mr De Villepin and Mr Straw and the German foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, are to visit Tehran on Monday to try to defuse the nuclear arms row.
www.guardian.co.uk /iran/story/0,12858,1065802,00.html   (599 words)

  
 Magnifisyncopathological: Dominique de Villepin Must Be Confused
M de Villepin derided American hawks for believing that "democracy can be imposed from the outside" and that "international legal tools become constraints more than safeguards of international security".
Monsieur de Villepin, allow me to untwist your poor tangled mind.
Villepin: Well, international legal tools allow us to prohibit, outlaw, and focus attention on international issues which threaten security.
www.drizzten.com /blargchives/000291.html   (626 words)

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