French Elections

FRENCH ELECTIONS....According to Belgium's Belga news agency (via the Guardian), exit polls show that the winners of the first round of today's French election are the Conservative, Nicolas Sarkozy, and the Socialist, Ségolène Royal. Jerome a Paris has some background here. And as long as you're over there, I also recommend last week's monster fisking of the Economist's endorsement of Sarkozy. It's not that I agree with everything Jerome said in it, just that it might possibly be the most thorough and spectacular example ever committed to pixels of an old and fading genre. Brings back memories.