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(Adds comment from prime minister) Bonds  |  France By Jean-Baptiste Vey PARIS, June 24 (Reuters) – The national loan announced thisweek by French President Nicolas Sarkozy should be raised fromboth the general public and financial markets, Economy MinisterChristine Lagarde said on Wednesday. “I hope we will have a mixed loan with part subscribed toby French people who believe and invest in our country’s futureand then subscription on the market if necessary to balancethings out,” Lagarde said at the launch of the summer sales inParis. Later, Prime Minister Francois Fillon confirmed in atelevision interview that the government wanted to partly raisethe funds from the French public. Despite a budget deficit set to reach 7.0-7.5 percent ofgross domestic product this year and next — over twice normalEuropean Union limits — Sarkozy said the government wouldraise the loan to fund major strategic investments.

Details on the volume and conditions of the loan and theinvestments it would fund have yet to be worked out. But it would follow a long tradition in France, going backto the post World War Two reconstruction, of governmentsturning to the public to rally support in difficult economictimes. Former President Valery Giscard d’Estaing launched one atthe time of the 1973 oil shock and former Prime MinisterEdouard Balladur launched another in the 1993 recession. “There is a big political dimension because it’s a realcommitment to rally the French people around big nationalprojects, including by subscribing to a loan,” Lagarde toldReuters “It’s a commitment for the country,” she said. Lagarde brushed aside worries that the loan, announced aday after European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichetwarned that states had no room to pile on more debt, wouldaffect France’s creditworthiness. “We are Triple A, we are among the best borrowers, themarkets know this, they are very attentive and very sensitive,”she said.

“We are also very vigilant and we don’t manage thisdebt carelessly,” she said. MIXED RECORD Sarkozy will no doubt be hoping that the loan will not be arepeat of the notorious “Giscard bond” — made famous outsidethe financial world by the minor role it played in Tom Wolfe’snovel “The Bonfire of the Vanities.” Linked to the price of gold as a hedge against inflation,the Giscard bond was undone by runaway bullion prices duringthe 1980s and ended up costing the French state more than 10times the amount it raised at issue. But even without such mishaps, the record of past nationalloans has been mixed at best because to attract investors, theyneed to be offered on attractive terms, which in turn makesthem more expensive for the treasury. “Borrowing from the general public always costs the stateand the taxpayer more,” Didier Migaud, the Socialist head ofthe parliamentary finance commission said in the NationalAssembly.