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Up until the eighteenth century, the lovely English name for trombone was sackbut, a word of Old French or possibly Spanish derivation.
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By making it, he is just confirming that he is still a good alumni of the old school of the administrative French elite (his 1980 class below had Villepin, Royal and Hollande in its ranks).
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It is even more unusual that the leader should be Sarkozy, especially as he came to power on a platform of rupture with the French comforts of old: the 35-hour working week, toasty public-sector employment benefits and a generally negative attitude towards workaholism.
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