When I learned about L’Eroica, an annual cycling event in Tuscany, I knew where I could find people who would understand me.

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Long the woman-behind-the-man, Bernadette Chirac (Catherine Deneuve) arrives at the presidential Elysée Palace in 1995 frustrated and all but cast off by her newly elected husband, Jacques (Michel ...