Francois Bayrou's performance on TF1's I've Got a Question For You last night was watched carefully by his opponents on the left and right.
The centrist UDF candidate, with 17% or so of the polls, is gradually gaining ground in the French presidential campaign.
"Pretty good," writes DinersRoom, "especially since he took the time to answer the questions properly".
"Had the air of a schoolmaster about him," says the editor of Marianne. "It's his little weakness."
"Not clear [how it will play]," says Versac. "Is he retreating into a caricature of himself?
I can't find a single turncoat from the left who's supporting him."
"His supporters say the left is smearing him as a rightwinger," writes the journalist Eric Dupin. A Segosphere blogger does just that: "Centrist, my foot. He won't be able keep up the pretence for much longer."
Tim King of Prospect is a fan: "One of Bayrou's closest advisors is also one of France's best economists - by 'best' I mean he not only talks the hind legs off a donkey with great wit, insight and deep experience, but he's an iconoclast and fiercely independent, a chap called Charles de Courson.
Bayrou on business was good news to me, and I would guess to the several hundred Brits who have set up businesses in France."
Meanwhile, <a href="http://carnetsdenuit.typepad.com/carnets_de_nuit/"
">Carnets de Nuit defends Segolene Royal, arguing that most of her so-called 'gaffes' - inappropriate remarks on Quebec's independence, not knowing the size of the French nuclear submarine fleet - aren't gaffes at all.
Tim King says marching against Le Pen just encourages him.
Laurent Glouaguen of Embruns backs a woman for president - Cindy Lee of the Parti du Plaisir.
Warning for readers at work: Cindy's assets are politically incorrect.
