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Although Mr Barnier is still primarily known as Monsieur Brexit, President Macron is likely to have chosen him because they are both from the pro-European establishment and share the same right-wing leanings on the economic front.

Known in France as Monsieur Brexit, Mr Barnier will be France's oldest prime minister since the Fifth Republic came into being in 1958.

He called Frantz Elbé, director of Haiti’s National Police, incapable and incompetent: “Monsieur Elbé has failed.”

He sat by an open window, sipping his coffee, and imagined how Rue Cortot had looked when Monsieur Renoir ate his breakfast here more than a century before.

“Monsieur Sinclair oversees the collection himself,” explained Gilles.