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After a brief introduction in French, M. Seillière said he would speak in English because it was the international business language. Without saying a word, the French President left with the French foreign minister, Philippe Douste-Blazy and finance minister, Thierry Breton. He only returned when the president of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, began speaking in French.
For you English guys: Trichet can be translated as ‘trickster’ and that would place Jean Claude Trichet in the same spot as Vladimir Poetin, which means (in a slightly modified spelling but with identical pronounciation) ‘Prostitute’. People with appropriate names.
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