French Rally Around Unlikely National Hero. Charismatic anti-globalist sheep farmer on trial for trashing a MacDonald’s.

Mr. Bové was a little-known farmer and union official until

last August, when he and the nine other men took a tractor,

pick axes and power saws to the local McDonald’s. Mr. Bové

said at the time that he was incensed by what he saw as the

unfairness of the United States to tax French delicacies like

Roquefort cheese and paté de foie gras in retaliation for

Europe’s decision not to import hormone-treated American

beef.

[New York Times] (Mr Bove was reportedly at the recent WTO protests carrying around a wheel of Roquefort to feed demonstrators.)