[Satire] From Mélenchon to Le Maire, the Lepine Contest of Upset Origins

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A few years ago, at the time when the Guignols de l'info were still raging every night on Canal +, it was a potache joke. The authors of the satirical show made Jacques Chirac's puppet say, back from a presidential visit "to the islands": "People don't know, d'Arvor, but until the age of fifteen, I was black [...] so when I am angry, I speak my native language, the Creole."The joke then seemed absurd, but with the hindsight, it sounds like the e…