Palin and the judgment of Paris

Dateline - Paris - French tabloids buzz with the news that Todd will bring Sarah to Paris on a chartered Air Alaska B707.  Naturally everyone in the café scene only has one question: where will she be having lunch with President Sarkozy's wife, the striking brunette and former model, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.


The parallels are too striking to ignore. But after the most famous mayor in America has breakfasted with the Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë (yes! breakfasting with the socialist mayor of Paris, mais oui, la noblesse oblige!) there will be lunch with the wife of the President.


All is sure to go well, with a few key phrases neatly penciled along the pale, delicate, pink skin of each finger of her left hand: "Gardez la foie!" "Pas vraie!"  "Mais oui!" "Mais non!"


And then the private tour of the Elysée museum with its great triumphal arch and - treasure and treat of the day - a private viewing of the Mona Lisa!  Or as we say at the Elysée, "La Gironde".


Will this mean that the treasures of the Elysée may one day go on tour of Alaska from Juneau to Anchorage to Fairbanks and back to Anchorage?  Art lovers from Nome to Barrow to Prudhoe Bay remember Sydney Laurence at the Paris Salon '84, or as we say, le Salon de Paris de mille-huit-cents-84.  And now, only 16 years later, her work may again tour France!


Ah, you can see the Gov'nor buttering her morning croissant and beaming at the smiles all around ...