Of the sev­eral things this poster leaves one to wonder at—like the fact that there’s a union for col­lege stu­dents in France, or the kind of argu­ment it deploys—perhaps the most amaz­ing is that it worked: on Feb. 15 it was announced that 620 mil­lion euros were being set aside for new col­lege housing.

From today’s Guardian:

The French pres­i­dent, Nico­las Sarkozy, has lived up to his tough-​talking rep­u­ta­tion in an extra­or­di­nary out­burst against two pho­tog­ra­phers while on hol­i­day in America.

A furi­ous Mr Sarkozy, sport­ing only his swim­ming trunks, leapt into a boat car­ry­ing the paparazzi and began shout­ing at them after he spot­ting them taking pic­tures of him.

Unfor­tu­nately, the president’s tirade - deliv­ered in French - was entirely lost on the pho­tog­ra­phers, nei­ther of whom could under­stand a word he was saying.