France's reluctant patient

Published on 29 July 2009

The Hyperpresident collapses. Sarkozy in enforced convalescence. "...The President is having a rest!..."

July 26, the French president was hospitalised after he had collapsed while jogging. On his release the next day, his doctors prescribed him a period of "relative rest".

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