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Above: France's first experiment with democracy
From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2765123.stm
Saturday, 15 February, 2003
With the world watching, French Foreign Minister, Dominique de Villepin, delivered an impassioned defence of his country's opposition to war.
"The message comes to you today from an old country," he said, a pointed reference to the "Old Europe" jibe from US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
An old country that, he said, "has never ceased to stand upright in the face of history and before mankind."
That provoked a rare event - a round of applause in the security council chamber - a round joined at the table itself by the Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan.
Below, not present to join in the applause: Hebert, Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI, Carrier, Robespierre