This week Mr Sarkozy bagged another Socialist grandee, Jack Lang, who also enjoys wide popularity.
His name was Bernie Madoff, a former chairman of NASDAQ and an industry grandee.
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The Tory grandee told peers he wanted to update them "at the earliest opportunity" on his new role.
Mr Hatch is not the only Republican grandee to have shifted nimbly rightward.
His outfit, a gift from Shah Abbas, was like an Isfahan grandee's ceremonial uniform, topped by a turban bigger than his head.
The Tory grandee, who went to Eton and became an MP in 1974, had held the post since 2010, but was replaced by former health secretary, Andrew Lansley.
Born on the fringe of the Virginian planter aristocracy, George Washington became a grandee by marriage, proprietor of thousands of acres and master of hundreds of slaves.
He is sitting on a report prepared by Jacques Attali, a Socialist grandee, which advocates a liberal shake-up of such highly regulated sectors as taxis, pharmacies and shops.
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To be fair, not all grandee gloom involves personal disappointment.
There are those places where they appoint a grandee: Australia, Canada for example appoint someone local and also someone who has made a mark in the political scene of that country.
But the elevations of John Thain (Bank of America-Merrill Lynch) and, above all, Sir Win Bischoff, chairman of Citigroup and a City grandee par excellence, epitomise the prevailing mood of prudence at the expense of risk.
If Drudge was gossipy, he was no more so than Walter Winchell had been in the 1930s and '40s--and hadn't Winchell grasped the evil of Hitler far quicker than the reigning grandee of American journalism, Walter Lippmann?
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