10 facts that will surprise you without doubt Hillary Clinton

By Pascal Riché

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Posted on 14-04-2015 at 9:08Updated at 10:17

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Republican in its infancy, admirer of education in French, pious ... The other face of the Democratic candidate for the US presidency.

PICTURES.Hillary Clinton before ARKANSAS GAZETTE / SIPA)

You think you have heard all about Hillary Clinton? Here are ten facts you probably know.

1It started in the Republican ranks

His military father was a Republican, so too. At 13, she investigated election fraud in Chicago, conducted for the benefit of JFK. In 1964 she campaigned for Barry Goldwater. She chaired the Young Republicans Club of Wellesley College, college it followed before landing at Yale. She switched parties in 1968 to support George McGovern in 1972.

2She Quebec ancestors

According to the Canadian Press , found in his family tree Campeau, Beaudry, Lefebvre, Picard, Duguay, Boucher, Gagnon, Hebert and Couillard.

3She worked for a company of cans

This happened in Alaska in 1969.

4It played a role in the Watergate

It was part of the work team preparing for the impeachment of Richard Nixon in 1974, after Watergate. Just before leaving for Arkansas.

5She repeatedly postponed marriage proposals Clinton

This is at least what it tells in his memoirs. She likes to tell how he had eaten the eyes in the Yale University Library: it was then lifted and had marched straight upon him to present himself (and embarrassing). She was dating at the time with a certain David Rupert, a young Republican became a conscientious objector. But she would not have found quite ambitious, he was told years later.

Clinton offered her a trip to England, she refused: "Not now." It would have postponed several times its requests for two years, she said. Until he makes crack saying he settled in Arkansas and had to marry him because he could not bear solitude in that area.

6She won a Grammy Award in 1997

She received the Grammy "Best Album spoke" for the audio version of his book "It Takes a Village".

Hillary Clinton received his Grammy Award

7She admires education in French

The sad truth is that Americans, unlike the French, have not paid enough price to the job that is to look after the children. "

The phrase is taken from his book "It takes a village" ("It Takes a Village" Denoël 1996).

We learn in "Hillary Clinton: A to Z", François Clemenceau (ed du Rocher, 2015) Hillary Clinton spent ten days in March 1989 in France for a study tour organized by the French American Foundation, to discover how marched family allowances, maternity leave, kindergartens ...

8It is pious

Brought up in the Christian religion, in the Methodist church. Spiritually formed by the Reverend Don Jones, who took her to a meeting of Martin Luther King in 1962. At the White House, she participated in a prayer group. It is, as the church, in favor of abortion rights.

Photo showing the "404" of the Clinton campaign website

9She dragged a real estate pot for years

This is the Whitewater or "Whitewatergate" case. In the late 1970s, young Hillary and Bill Clinton have invested in a holiday resort project, which went bankrupt in unclear circumstances. With suicide the key.

A thorough investigation was conducted under the presidency of Bill Clinton, after which the presidential couple was cleared. In 1994, Hillary Clinton gave a press conference to explain: