[French President Francois Hollande waits for a guest at the Elysee Palace in Paris]By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) - President Francois Hollande used the last Bastille Day address of his mandate, less than a year before presidential polls, to paint himself as France's guardian through a time of joblessness and violence that he had brought under control. "I must protect France, it's fragile, it can crack at any moment," he told journalists on the national day commemorating the storming of the Bastille and the liberal ideas that gave birth to the French Revolution. Hollande, elected in 2012 when the eurozone was suffering the fallout of a Greek financial crisis, expressed confidence he could achieve the cut in French unemployment he has promised.
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