French Connections: Networks of Influence: Coignard, Sophie; Guichard, Marie-Therese; Torjoc, Keith : 9781892941022: Book: Social Science: eCampus.com

Political partners and alumni groups, Masons and the Mafia, Jews and Protestants -- we are enmeshed in a network of networks, working for and against each other's interests. They explain the decisions, the nominations, the deals that take place. How much influence do they really have? This book enumerates the ways in which members of "old-boys' clubs" maneuver to help each other through.

Political leaders, gang leaders, corporate chiefs, and smugglers -- they all form a very small world. From dinner clubs to juntas ... it's not only business deals that go on behind those doors!

Introduction

(12)

Making It

(20)

The ``Red Collars'' from the Mountains

(1)

The Chouchen Connection

(3)

The Corsicans' Floor

(7)

Correze, the Capital City of the Presidential Palace

(7)

A Helping Hand

(36)

Neither Rightists Nor Leftists: The Gays

(3)

The Vacillating Gays

(1)

The Good Works of Pierre Berge

(2)

``Maoist Cells'' versus ``Gay Cells''

(1)

If All the Gays in the World...

(3)

The President's Jews

(2)

Very Catholic Alliances

(2)

The Universal Law of Pulling Strings

(2)

The ``Calf's Brains Right-wing'' Against the ``Caviar Left,''

(3)

The HSP Isn't What It Used to Be

(5)

Who Goes Hunting?

(2)

The ``Make Yourself at Home'' Brotherhood

(2)

The ``Crocodile Club,''

(2)

``Handicaps'' Transformed into Assets

(4)

Socializing Together

(20)

A Place At the Table

(3)

Hen and Chicks

(3)

A Mafia by Birth

(5)

Luxuries, Delicacies, and Antiques

(5)

Making a Career

(32)

A Very Small World

(3)

Little Bankruptcies Between Friends

100

(3)

The ``Miners'' Are Always There, in the Background

103

(5)

The Detergent Gang

108

(4)

Got A Problem? Dial ``3615 Krivine,''

112

(4)

The Club of Repentant Bruisers

116

(4)

To the Extreme Right of the Father

120

(5)

Getting Rich

125

(36)

Territories

128

(5)

Family Scenes

133

(4)

Food Freemasonry

137

(2)

``Brothers'' at the Coast

139

(2)

A Flock of Canaries

141

(1)

Poor Victor Schoelcher!

142

(6)

``Concrete'' Lodges

148

(6)

The Charentais Clan

154

(7)

Monopolies

161

(32)

The Rake Technique

162

(3)

The Young Man with the Address Book

165

(2)

A Strategy: ``Buy at the Bottom,''

167

(2)

Bosses in Adversity

169

(4)

Years Go By, Ambroise Roux Remains

173

(2)

The Bebear Gang

175

(3)

``Godsons'' of the Third Generation

178

(1)

Our Literary Friends

179

(3)

The ``Salon des Refuses'' against the ``Club of the Established''

182

(3)

The ``Torcello Diners''

185

(2)

The Real Chic of Risoul

187

(6)

Conspiracies

193

(28)

An Odd Duck

197

(2)

Rifles, No More ``Social Psychology''!

199

(3)

The Fan Strategy

202

(5)

As for ``Models''

207

(3)

The Cuckoo Method

210

(3)

The Reds and the Browns: A Marriage of the Extremes

213

(4)

A Nasty ``Old Crone''

217

(4)

Protecting Each Other

221

(32)

The Plot of the Cassocks

222

(4)

The Perfume Clan

226

(8)

On Sinecure Street

234

(7)

A Funny Sort of Appendix

241

(2)

The Pen-Pushers'Bunker

243

(5)

Le Pen, Here We Are

248

(5)

Militants

253

(42)

The Left, For Christ

256

(5)

The Cardinal's Shock Troops

261

(4)

``Christo-Marxist'' Methods

265

(3)

The Son-in-Law and His Friends

268

(3)

Catholically Incorrect

271

(7)

Becoming President

The Stalags as a Hunting Ground

278

(3)

Protectors with Heart and Protectors with Cash

281

(4)

Le Pen's Closest Friends

285

(3)

Juniors at the Elysee

288

(7)

Footnotes

295


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