
“How could Olivier B, a hairstylist by trade, not feel affection for a man who’s been paying him nearly €10,000, or about $11,000, of French taxpayer money each month since he took office in 2012? It is not as though there is a tremendous amount of work to be done on Hollande’s fully receded hairline, with its stick-straight, easily-tamable short crop of soft-looking strands. But Olivier B has made work out of it, nonetheless. That, apparently, is worth $132,000 a year, more than European parliament members make, and just about as much as French government ministers pull in. The average French person, by contrast, earns close to $41,000 a year, according to the O.E.C.D..”
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/francois-hollande-haircut
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