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I moved to France in 1997 with a broken heart and an O-level in French that needed a hefty dose of WD40. Buying L’Equipe, of course, Canard Enchainé and the occasional Charlie Hebdo was my way into French culture. While I struggled with my schoolgirl vocabulary and dictionary, their cartoonists made life easy for me. They hooked me effortlessly into that particularly French brand of satire that is equal opportunities mockery of unworthy elites, of the priest who neither ploughs like the peasant or heals like the doctor, to paraphrase Rabelais. A devout and committed Francophile, Cabu and his ilk ripped the rose tinted spectacles from my eyes. Out in la France profonde I discovered a deep streak of secularism behind the conservative Catholicism and a belief in the ultimate power of democracy and the republic. theguardian/sport/100-tours-100-tales/2015/jan/14/french-cartoons-charlie-hebdo-satirised-lance-armstrong-puerile-perfect
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 09:42:47 +0000

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