Tuesday 13th December 2011 : Nicolas Sarkozy re-establishes the franc !
Towards midday on Tuesday the 13th December 2011, an emotionless Claude Guéant, the Secretary General of Elysée, descends the front steps of the Elysée. He announces to the hundred or so frenzied journalists that France would be leaving the eurozone and bringing back the franc ; confirming the (…)