Relief at the scale of Mr Chirac's victory was tempered by the realisation that despite two weeks of huge anti-Le Pen protests around France and an unprecedented media offensive, the former paratrooper still managed to collect several hundred thousand more votes than the total far-right score in last month's first round.
Either way, the consensus seems to be that everyone knows what's "really" happening now--the spies have come in from the cold and handed us their BlackBerries, and now our planet is one huge John le Carre story.
Huge thanks to Le Grand Hotel Swank, full marks on every single level.
"My son's girlfriend said, 'It's a huge bed,' " Ms. Le, who is five feet tall, said.
Despite a difficult start, Todt can judge that it has been a success: aside from the usual huge numbers at Le Mans, crowds of more than 30,000 attended the races at Silverstone, Spa and Fuji.
During my research, I talked to the former chief executive of the Milton Keynes Development Corporation and he told me he fiercely objected to the idea of flat roofs but, apparently, the lead architect was a huge fan of Le Corbusier and couldn't stand the idea of bricks.
It was the best R18 I've had over a period of time, for sure". McNish had a difficult season in 2011, coming through a huge accident at the Le Mans 24 and without a win in the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup that was the precursor to the WEC, so was buoyed by beginning his world title challenge with an emphatic win.
The May 5 vote, consequently, became a huge protest against Mr. Le Pen, handing Mr. Chirac a victory with 82percentt of the votes.
There were also huge public tapestries by Le Corbusier and Vasarely in the main tower lobby – which were replaced in 2002 with a Sol LeWitt mural.
The same year I was astonished to see Allan McNish walk away from a huge incident at the Le Mans 24 and just hours later his team-mate Mike Rockenfeller do the same from an even bigger crash later in the race.
The daily Libération was no less emphatic, calling for a huge turnout against Mr. Le Pen, who has a history of making anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant comments, so that he might be sent "back to the fringes".
