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French radical leftist; Dreyfusard, erstwhile bleeding-heart supporter of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, wrongly convicted of treason in 1894 and exonerated in 1906; Cagoulard (from French wearer of a monk's cowl), a member of a sort of 1930s French Ku Klux Klan; and Communard, an adherent of the Commune of Paris, a group that took over the municipal government of the French capital and played a leading role in the post-revolutionary Reign of Terror.
He gives extra humor and zest to the erstwhile lover's goodbye by wrapping it in a familiar set phrase.
The erstwhile pro wrestler wasn't showing off his excellent grasp of the English language--no, he was executing a rhetorical flourish to underscore his commitment to not running for the U.S. presidency.
Chatterbox has no problem naming something else in Washington after Eisenhower, a great general and a pretty good president--there's already a theater named after him in the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts--but what about his erstwhile boss, Franklin Roosevelt?
The WP 's front reports that as part of Ken Starr's effort to methodically reconstruct the details of Monica Lewinsky's life that she communicated to her erstwhile friend Linda Tripp, Lewinsky has been asked to provide fingerprints and a handwriting sample to investigators today.