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AN ambitious young Frenchwoman whose fight against trade unions has earned her the nickname Mademoiselle Thatcher is to stand for parliament at the start of a political career which she hopes will revolutionise France. If elected next year, Sabine Herold, the darling of the French right, will become the country’s youngest MP so far at the age of 25. In March, Herold helped to launch Liberal Alternative, a political party that already has representatives in 150 French towns and cities. She hopes that it will soon have several MPs. “People are hungry for change,” she said in an interview last...

Dear FReepers, I know I've not posted here for a long time. I'm coming back to ask your help. As you know, France might be one of the least collectivit countries. Yet some groups try to reform the county. The task is hard yet not impossible. I think some of you heard about the association I'm leading, called "Liberté j'écris ton nom" (freedom I write your name: www.liberte-cherie.com) which led a huge rally in Paris last June to protest against the civil-servants' strikes that keep crippling the country any time a shy government try to attempt a small reform. 80...

<p>Some conservatives liken Sabine Herold, a 22-year-old student, to Joan of Arc, and others nickname her "Mademoiselle Thatcher" after she took on France's left-wing labor unions this summer.</p> <p>Many in France see her as a symbol of a growing revulsion among young French libertarians against a ruling class that punishes excellence and rewards mediocrity.</p>

Last Sunday, November 2, Paris witnessed an unusual demonstration. A group of classical liberals, led by a fire-breathing 21-year-old college student, planted genetically modified seeds and distributed them to the all the passers-by. This happened in Champ de Mars, in front of the Porte de la Paix. This shocking demonstration is how Liberté J'Ecris Ton Nom, a group of French libertarian students, answered to the "obscurantism" of all of those who want to inhibit free inquiry and scientific research — in the name of food safety. Liberté J'Ecris Ton Nom objects to the food protectionism of the European Union, and...

France's young contrarian A 22-year-old leads the revolt against strike-addled culture Matt Welch National Post Saturday, October 25, 2003 Most French people devote their summers to quintessentially Gallic pursuits: celebrating Bastille Day, using up some of their minimum five-week vacation time and going on the occasional strike. But Sabine Herold, to put it mildly, is not your typical French person. Herold, the 22-year-old leader of Liberté, j'écris ton nom (Freedom, I write your name), has in the past few months emerged as the popular and highly photogenic leader of -- zut! -- a burgeoning pro-market, pro-American counterculture in France. Compared...

Sabine Herold is hoping to save France from itself. This 21-year-old student has burst onto the Paris scene calling herself a libertarian and a conservative--it doesn't hurt her cause that she is extremely pretty (those eyelashes!) and sophisticated. In the middle of the Iraq war, she and some friends demonstrated outside the American embassy in support of President Bush. In her opinion, the French are anti-American out of injured pride that France is no longer the dominant nation it once was. Even more courageously, she has stood on the steps of the city hall to deliver an impassioned speech against...

'You work so hard - I love it' (Filed: 26/06/2003) Sabine Herold, 21, has been called France's answer to Margaret Thatcher. Alice Thomson brought her to London and showed her the sights Sabine is my new French exchange partner. She is a political science student, very beautiful and speaks perfect English. She has also just become the most famous 21-year-old in France.Dubbed France's Lady Thatcher by the newspapers, Mademoiselle Herold has been leading the rallies against the unions who have been crippling her country. Standing on a telephone box in her pearl earrings and high heels, she addresses crowds...

In the 15th century, a young woman named Joan rallied the people of France to revolt against their English oppressors. Today, another young woman, named Sabine Herold, is trying to do the same thing. Only she is not trying to save France from foreign invaders but from itself. Herold is a 21-year-old college student who became the unlikely leader of a libertarian revolt in France when she spoke out against striking public sector unions. Protesting government plans to make them work 40 years to receive full pensions, as private sector workers do, rather than 37 as they do now, the...

HAILED as the new Joan of Arc on a crusade to stop France’s powerful unions holding the silent majority hostage over pension reform, Sabine Herold, 21, a politics student, has become an instant heroine to those who are fed up with seeing their country crippled by seemingly endless strikes. Shouting into a microphone to loud applause, Ms Herold delivered a stirring message to the tens of thousands of followers who gathered in the Place du Chatelet in the centre of Paris at the weekend, to hear her speak on behalf of her association, Liberté, j’écris ton nom. "How numerous we...

Unions humiliated over pension bill as French tire of strikesBy Philip Delves Broughton, in Paris(Filed: 18/06/2003) France's unions are facing their greatest humiliation in more than 70 years this week as Jean-Pierre Raffarin, the prime minister, looks set to triumph in his plans to reform the creaking pension scheme.The first of 24 clauses in M Raffarin's bill have been passed in parliament and the government hopes to move speedily in the days to come. Fresh strikes have been called for tomorrow, but M Raffarin has reached the verge of the summer holidays without conceding, while the unions are losing support...

France's exhaustion with its unions has found its voice in a 21-year-old student, Sabine Herold, who is challenging the silent majority to revolt against the strikes crippling her country ... In the middle of the Iraq war, she and her friends demonstrated outside the American embassy in support of military action, a bold step considering the overwhelming opposition to the war in France. "There is a systemic opposition to America in France," she said yesterday.