Allez Sarko

Françoise Fressoz, a political commentator for Les Echos newspaper, wrote that as if by magic the habitually gloomy country had assumed a far more rosy outlook following Mr Sarkozy’s election on May 6. “At all levels of society confidence is back. All that because a new man has entered the Elysée palace and promised his people that everything is possible. The miracle of Sarkomania!”

65% approval ratings, an ally of the US at the United Nations, an infectious optimism... I think I might be right after all.