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“How can anyone govern a country with 246 varieties of cheese?” Charles de Gaulle famously wondered. Not, perhaps, with the Fifth Republic he helped design. The upheaval in France (see pages 4 and 10) has prompted another spate of articles about a Sixth Republic in France, especially in the German press. This is partly . When all you read about