1. L’Express, 2–8 May 2003.
2. On Americanisation, see The Sunday Times, 22 February 2004.
3. J. Ardagh, France in the New Century. Portrait of a Changing Society (London, Penguin, 1999), p. 25.
4. See, for example, L’Evénement du jeudi, 2 February 1992.
5. Quoted in B. Clift, ‘PS Intra-Party Politics and Party System Change’ in J. Evans (ed.), The French Party System (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2003), p. 50.