The rusting, mechanical skeletons of a disused coalmine might seem an eccentric backdrop against which to evoke a country's future. But that is where Nicolas Sarkozy (above), France's main centre-right candidate and front-runner in the polls, took his campaign to be president this week, when he dropped in on a former pit in Lorraine, in eastern France. The choice was deliberate, giving him a chance to salute, as he put it, "blue-collar culture" and muscular industriousness, the values , he has placed at the heart of his campaign.
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