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Remember when French cars were chic? Not only chic, but original, eccentric, even sexy?
Consider the sharky Citroën DS, a style icon every bit as evocative of Gallic esprit as a Breton top or a smouldering Gitane. A favourite of 1960s policiers, the 1965 DS 19 Pallas is the car Alain Delon steals in Le Samouraï, no doubt persuaded as much by its revolutionary…

