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    My salad days

    Aug 10, 2022 3 minutes
    Tom Parker Bowles

    ACQUES MÉDECIN was born in Nice and elected as its mayor in 1966, remaining in office for a further 24 years. Wildly popular among the electorate, he was also a notorious racist and fraudster. After allegations of corruption grew ever louder in the 1980s (helped, in part, by Graham Greene’s famed pamphlet), he fled France for Uruguay, before being arrested, extradited back home and jailed. So what, I hear you cry, does this shameless old crook have to do with, save sharing the same

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