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Byline: Eric Pape and Christopher Dickey (With Karen Lowry Miller in Brussels and William Underhill in London)
Like his hero Charles de Gaulle, Dominique de Villepin sees himself as a man of action. When France's prime minister mulls tough decisions in Matignon, his official palace on the Left Bank, he casts an aristocratic eye on the general's famous fighting words, ceremoniously framed: France has lost a battle. but France has not lost the war! De Gaulle called on his countrymen to resist German occupation in 1940. Villepin today calls on France to protect French
jobs. "The true evil," he said upon taking office in June, is unemployment. "All of the ...