在法国人选举萨科奇作为他们的新总统、现在又让他的政治伙伴在议会取得领导地位的过程中，有一个令人费解的特点通常会被大家忽视，即个人乐观主义和公众悲观主义相互融合。
One puzzling and often overlooked feature of the France that elected Nicolas Sarkozy as its new president, and that is now poised to give his political allies a powerful parliamentary mandate, is its mix of private optimism and public pessimism.