Pave: Life In France, IV

En plus, ici tout le monde m'adore et on me demande même des autographes.

[Anyway, everybody loves me here, I even get stopped for autographs.]

Pierre Chevalier,
ancien Mr. Propre,
demonstrating the French non sequitur defense
(infra)

It is a sad day when beloved advertising icons betray the brand.

"MONSIEUR [SIC] PROPRE" TROP SALE ?
["MR. CLEAN" TOO DIRTY?]
January 12, 2008 (Le Post/AFP/Le Parisien)

FRANCE'S 'MR CLEAN' REJECTS DIRTY CARAVAN CHARGE

EVRY January 12, 2008 (AFP) — French television's "Mr Clean" has been threatened with eviction from a mobile home park south of Paris because his caravan is too dirty, Pierre Chevalier told AFP Saturday.

A household figure in the 1980s thanks to advertising for cleaning product "Monsieur [sic] Propre", Chevalier has fallen foul of new park owner Philippe Waver, who has written demanding he remove a "heap" of recovered junk on his plot. Waver is seeking the removal of Chevalier's caravan, some 20 years old, in a bid to make his Essonne site more up-market.

TOUT LE MONDE M'ADORE
Love Me, Love My Trailer Park Trash

"Yes, we haven't cleaned the place since [August 2007]," [M. Chevalier] said. "But the site is currently closed and all the plots are covered with (broken) branches and leaves.

"All the plots are dirty."

AFP has M. Chevalier reject the charge in its headline then reports M. Chevalier openly admitting to it. That is a very neat trick.

Mr. Waver might count himself lucky that it is M. Chevalier, with his broken branches and junk heap, who is his tenant and not Thierry Ehrmann.

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