The President paced the park in high spirits.
Admittedly, he had not yet found a prime minister.
But like any head of state since Louis XIV, he knew that a few minutes spent with his gardener would enlighten him more than all the flatterers paid to advise him.
In this spring of 2037, he was still jubilant at the memory of this game led by the hand of a master fifteen years earlier.
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Since he had chosen a woman as head of government, he had only dipped into the breeding ground of this "genre", less to compensate for a millennial injustice than to have well-made brains, whose ambition was to illustrate the word from Empress Eugénie about Rosa Bonheur, their muse:
“Genius has no sex.”
Since then, common sense measures flowed like mead on Mount Olympus.
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