PARIS (Reuters) - To a visitor from Mars, France's presidential election must seem a bizarre contest between candidates waging largely artificial battles with Europe before an electorate of economic illiterates.
President Nicolas Sarkozy boasts of having saved the euro and turned the corner in the currency area's sovereign debt crisis (with a little help from German Chancellor Angela Merkel) despite losing France's top-grade credit rating.
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