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 "Out with Hollande and the entire political class. Long live the
Sixth Republic," read a message on the side of the man's articulated
truck. France's present-day Fifth Republic was founded in 1958 with
Charles de Gaulle its first president.
The unnamed perpetrator was detained by police before he was able to
shed all of his truckload of dung at the steps of the Bourbon
Palace, the building that houses the lower house of parliament on
the edge of the Seine river in downtown Paris, witnesses said.
Authorities began a mass clear-up operation.
Hollande, hit by magazine allegations of a love affair with an
actress and battling to restore the fortunes of Europe's
second-largest economy, has the lowest popularity ratings of any
leader in modern-day France.
(Reporting by Emile Picy; writing by Mark John;
editing by Hugh
Lawson)
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