This show stands a good chance of fulfilling that old avant-garde imperative "épater le bourgeois" — shock the bourgeoisie.
Four years later, Jean-Marie Le Pen shocked the country by making it through to the second round of the presidential elections.
In 2002, when Jean-Marie Le Pen shocked pollsters by landing in the second and final round of the vote, Jacques Chirac, France's incumbent conservative president, refused to debate him.
ALMOST 13 years have passed since the then leader of the Front National (FN), Jean-Marie Le Pen, shocked the world by reaching the run-off in the presidential election of 2002.
Mr. Le Pen shocked European politics by coming in second and eliminating the Socialist candidate, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, in first-round voting in the French presidential elections on Sunday.
But when in 2002, Le Pen shocked France by getting through to the final round of the presidential election, knocking out the Socialists, she felt she had to go into politics.
France now faces the traditional right-left run-off that it was denied in the last election in 2002, when the far-right leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, shocked the country by making it through to the final round.
In 2002, Marine's father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, shocked the world when he reached the second and final round of the contest after receiving almost 17percentt of the vote amid a fragmented field of candidates.
Courbet virtually wrote the definition of the modern artist as a bohemian, narcissistic loner and political radical who shunned the academy, tutoring himself at the Louvre and living by the phrase "épater le bourgeois," or "shock the bourgeoisie".
Nonetheless, Mr. Le Pen, who shocked the nation by qualifying for the final round of the presidential elections, managed to extend his reach slightly from the first round.
