The man's prestige is so vast that it is slightly nauseating now to think of the "opposition" to him that rich Frenchmen were still telling credulous friends about in London and Washington only a few months ago.
Residents gave witness statements to the Environment Agency which described the smell as "nauseating" and said it had stopped them using their gardens.
As conditions on the Triumph deteriorated, passengers described to friends and family a grim scene of overflowing toilets, nauseating odors and shortages of food.