François Hollande's victory ...... in pictures

[marmar]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2012/may/07/francois-hollande-french-election-pictures#/?picture=389745668&index=0


from the Guardian UK:

[dhill926]

1. K & R.....

LOVE it.........

[roamer65]

2. Imagine if we had this many in our streets after an election.

This country is f'ing lame.

[chollybocker]

6. Where were you in 2008?

Not Hyde Park, obvs.

[frazzled]

15. Now, aren't you embarrassed?

I was there: Grant Park, Chicago, 2008

[joshcryer]

21. Hehehe

Loving under a rock, were we?

[Dawson Leery]

3. Crying over a Sarkozy loss?

[chollybocker]

4. Recommandée/Bottée

[Egalitarian Thug]

5. Very cool! K&R! n/t

[Starry Messenger]

7. k&r

[Proles]

8. A great victory :) nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Reminds me of Nov of 2008

Hope all that hope don't go away.

[seabeyond]

10. yea for them. thanks for the pictures. nt

[NBachers]

11. Edith Piaf La Marseillaise

I usually load up on bread, cheese, and wine on Bastille Day and blast this over and over.

Oops, I forgot to link to the song:

OK, fixed . . .

[RufusTFirefly]

13. Great, except apparently it's not Piaf but Mireille Mathieu. n/t

[NBachers]

17. Wow, it's a perfect duplicate of my "Edith Piaf Bastille Day spectacle"

Now I'll have to find out about Mireille Mathieu. Whoever it's by, it's what La Marseillaise is supposed to be, in my humble and unversed opinion.

Yup, looks like you're right, Firefly:

That's OK, I'll continue to celebrate Bastille Day in my customary bombastic manner. Thanks for the info!

[LongTomH]

29. Beautiful rendition! But, you can't beat the Marseilles scene in Casablanca

A little-known background to this scene is, that many of the extras in Rick's Cantina were refugees from the Nazis!

[Mass]

24. You're right.

[FourScore]

14. I think you mean this one:

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[uponit7771]

12. I'm blown away by the diversity of the crowd chearing for the progressive

[Prometheus Bound]

16. That's the first thing I noticed too.

[silverweb]

20. Isn't that the way it always is?

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]The authoritarians are always racist and insular. Real democracy is joyously diverse.

[uponit7771]

28. Yeap, I didn't think France was that diverse. I thought the Muslim community was mostly white..

...like in some of the southern European countries

[marmar]

30. France, particularly Ile-de-France (the Paris region) and Marseille, is very diverse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_France

[Grassy Knoll]

18. Power To The People, Right On.....

[RainDog]

19. great photos!

[Canuckistanian]

22. OH, I love these pics

They really convey the joys of a very passionate people.

Félicitations, a tous les peuples de la France!

[Odin2005]

23. The 2nd pic is awesome!

[malaise]

25. Magnificent

Thanks

[FSogol]

26. Cool photos, but on some French version of DU,

"supporters" of Holland are bemoaning the fact that he hasn't fixed everything yet.

[Zorra]

27. Thanks! We are the 99%. nt

[Scurrilous]

31. K & R