presidential candidate's faux pas as he quotes WRONG Shakespeare in speech
Francois Hollande thought he was citing The Bard
But he quoted British writer NICHOLAS Shakespeare
By Lee Moran
Last updated at 12:28 PM on 27th January 2012
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It was supposed to be his Agincourt moment - a speech to 20,000 adoring supporters which would seal his deal with the French electorate.
But the left-wing frontrunner in the presidential race has been left a laughing stock, after his high-brow attempt to quote William Shakespeare spectacularly backfired.
Francois Hollande thought he was citing a little-known passage of The Bard when, lapping up the applause, he said: 'And I will quote Shakespeare, who recalls this universal law, they failed because they did not start with a dream.'
But he was in fact quoting current British author Nicholas Shakespeare - from his 1989 fictional novel The Vision of Elena Silves about a Marxist
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