After his victory in France's Presidential election on Sunday, François Hollande invoked the spirit of the US President Franklin Roosevelt as a guide for a French economic recovery.
So what lies behind Hollande's invocation of an American who led 75 years ago? And can American's New Deal really be applied to France in 2012?
Hollande's biographer and I considered this yesterday with Robin Lustig of the BBC World Service's NewsHour.
The discussion begins at 48:52.