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9:31AM Saturday 28th January 2012
It was truly an Agincourt moment for the Socialist French presidential candidate, François Hollande.
"They failed," he said of Nicolas Sarkozy's administration, "because they did not start with a dream". Inquiries showed that the quotation did not match anything from Shakespeare's known canon of plays or sonnets. But while it was indeed the work of Shakespeare it was not by the Bard of Stratford – but by the living British author and book reviewer, Nicholas Shakespeare.
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