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That is to say, Potiche is sweet, affirmative, predictable and pretty hopelessly dated, even though Ozon has added a political coda - a nod, he's been saying in interviews, to the likes of Madame Chirac and Segolene Royal, who've been dismissed in some quarters as potiches - that allows the heroine to triumph far more decisively than she did onstage.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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"potiche", actually, refers to a beautiful but kinda "decorative" woman. depends on the context, but you could translate it by something like "arm candy", though in france we often call "potiches" girls on TV game shows whose job is to look hot and pretend she helps (like the hostess in french wheel of fortune).
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