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JACQUES CHIRAC was basking in ecstatic praise from virtually all of France yesterday after his Monday night pledge to defy America and veto a war against Iraq.

Only a few grumbles from the business world and a squeak of dissent from his own conservative camp marred a symphony of tributes for President Chirac and his redemption as a man of destiny after a long and chequered political career.

Only Joan of Arc was missing from the rollcall of heroes, from Charles de Gaulle to Charlemagne, to which M Chirac was likened.

"In the eyes of the world he has attained the kind of stature that Mandela won in Africa," La Croix, the Roman Catholic daily, declared.

Le Figaro called M Chirac a "white knight of peace, champion of all the oppressed of the Earth" and suggested that he might win the Nobel Peace Prize.

The talk from Paris dinner tables to works canteens was about pride in France leading the field in a moral cause. The mood, spurred in part by old Gallic reflexes against the "Anglo-Saxons", reflected the belief that M Chirac had put France back on the map.

Every flyblown pest hole is on some map.

"Maybe Chirac stumbled into this, but the old dodger has finally done something great," was a common refrain among intellectuals who had long regarded him as an unprincipled opportunist.

And we now regard them as unprincipled opportunists.

Le Monde, which until elections last year had led the campaign to expose M Chirac as corrupt, hailed the "nobility" of his cause in defending the international order against "the neo-imperialist Americans". Libération, another perennial opponent, the left-wing daily, marvelled at the way in which he was leading the world towards his vision of a multipolar, international order in the face of superpower hegemony. Serge July, Editor of Libération, said that M Chirac’s intransigence was aimed at saving America from its own "fatal unilateralism".

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Hmm, what more could they do to live up to the stereotype? Beats the hell out of me.