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21:12 GMT, 11 July 2012
Francois Hollande was ridiculed today after allowing himself to look like a 'dwarf' alongside a British regiment
which won battle honours at Waterloo and then occupied Paris.
He is the second diminutive French President in a row, but at 5ft7 he is two inches taller than Sarkozy, who was
notoriously touchy about his size.
Hollande was left red-faced after an official visit to London yesterday when he was photographed next to rather
taller guard of honour from the 1st Battalion of the Coldstream Guards.
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Matters were not helped by the guards' sizable bearskins which made the President appear tiny in the pictures taken
outside the foreign office.
Comments alongside the image on a website of pictures taken by AFP, France's national news agency, suggested
Hollande had fallen into a 'trap' made to make him look ridiculous.
'Poor France,' wrote Jean-Marc Rameau, from Paris, while Dmitri Kovaley mocked Mr Hollande, who is 5ft 7ins, with
the words 'Dwarfs rule the world'.
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21:12 GMT, 11 July 2012
Francois Hollande was ridiculed today after allowing himself to look like a 'dwarf' alongside a British regiment
which won battle honours at Waterloo and then occupied Paris.
He is the second diminutive French President in a row, but at 5ft7 he is two inches taller than Sarkozy, who was
notoriously touchy about his size.
Hollande was left red-faced after an official visit to London yesterday when he was photographed next to rather
taller guard of honour from the 1st Battalion of the Coldstream Guards.
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Matters were not helped by the guards' sizable bearskins which made the President appear tiny in the pictures taken
outside the foreign office.
Comments alongside the image on a website of pictures taken by AFP, France's national news agency, suggested
Hollande had fallen into a 'trap' made to make him look ridiculous.
'Poor France,' wrote Jean-Marc Rameau, from Paris, while Dmitri Kovaley mocked Mr Hollande, who is 5ft 7ins, with
the words 'Dwarfs rule the world'.
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