Instead, Le Pen stuck le shiv in the president's gut.
Even the populist Le Parisien, stuck to politics with its headline: "High Voltage.
Le Saux stuck things out, but the memories of his experiences – in particular, the vicious taunting he received from some other players on the pitch, have not dimmed.
Even the more populist Le Parisien stuck to politics with its headline "High voltage", adding: "In front of the press the president announced a series of economic and social measures while remaining very discreet about his personal situation that he will clarify later".
But as tens of thousands of people signed up to the online campaigns led by a Franco-Belgian anti-bank protest group, the French government warned against "Eric Le Rouge" sticking his nose into economics.
Other former members of MI6, including Graham Greene and John le Carre, also later stuck to fiction.
Genre fiction that gets too far into the ambiguous tends to remind us that if we had a hankering for the quasi-meaningless we could have stuck with le nouveau roman.
Le contends he was stuck by the tester with a needle less than 15 minutes after leaving the octagon from a grueling defeat in which he suffered a broken eye bone and was bleeding internally, contending his state of exertion and trauma caused his body's own growth hormone level to rise.
But the Texan, rather than pronouncing "Le" with a French accent, stuck to Texan English and called it "Lee Car".
Their names include the obvious (Le Dragon, Le Boomerang), the fantastic (Le Pierrot, L'Etoile) and the downright wistful, for sailors stuck at the edge of an empire: La Cathédrale and Les Mamelles (island of breasts).
"France is like this handicapped person stuck in this wheelchair," Le Pen told a French TV network.
