DEEP IN RURAL FRANCE, THE ANcient village of Sarran (population: 300) boasts a strange museum. It's a 4 million EUR building, constructed at the expense of today's French and Fu-ropcan taxpayers, and very modern, to be sure. But its spirit harks backto the cabinets dc curiosite of the 18th century, in which the great dilettantes of the French Enlightenment accumulated vast eccentric collections that often revealed the hidden corners of their minds. Sarran's cabinet is all about French President Jacques Chirac, who traces his family roots and his political origins to this region of Correze.
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