Marie-Ségolène Royal (pronounced: [se.ɡɔ.lɛn ʁwa.jal]; born 22 September 1953), known as Ségolène Royal, is a French politician. A prominent member of the French Socialist Party, she was the Socialist candidate in the 2007 presidential election, but lost to Nicolas Sarkozy. She was the first woman in France to be nominated as a presidential candidate by a major party. She has served as Minister for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy in the Valls Cabinet since 2014 and has been President of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council since 2004.
In 2008, Royal narrowly lost to Martine Aubry in the Socialist Party's election for First Secretary at the Party's twenty-second national congress. On 30 November 2010, Royal announced her intentions to again seek the PS nomination for President in 2012 but she lost the Socialist Party presidential primary in 2011. She failed in her attempt to win a seat in the National Assembly in the June 2012 parliamentary elections.
François Hollande, the current President of France, is the father of her four children. She was appointed by him to the vice-Chair directorship of the Banque Publique d'Investissement.
Recite the unspoken
A manifest of the Great Self
A solid faith in what you can accomplish
A supreme vision of capability
An arcane text
Describing an outrageous test
Too bold the modern ones would say
You can always pray
A vile ritual bleeding
Like a spear of hate
Almost like the predator's feeding
Consolidating every man's fate
Oh venerable ancestors
Please grant me with my pagan fest
I'm equal to my human contester
May it be a fight for all the best
Would the few of us ever accept
A moral that is slightly trite?
A sun that never sets is still being bright
Small pieces of heathen soil can make any man's blood boil
A violation of anything supreme has come into regularity in any scene
Never condone the residue of human scald
Boiling in water that is still cold
A modern day heresy it would be in fact