Marseille’s maverick Covid scientist: why the city took doctor to its heart
by Kim Willsher from World news | The Guardian on (#57GTE)
Didier Raoult has touted many dubious treatments but is a hero in France's second city, which has long railed against Paris
The people of Provence in the south of France have a word for a particularly comic or bizarrely dramatic situation: pagnolesque.
It is a tribute to one of the region's most famous sons, the author Marcel Pagnol, who declared in his play Les Marchands de Gloire (The Glory Merchants): In politics everything is a comedy."
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