Fading France Could Emerge As Quite a Story

Will Macron enjoy next year the advantages he had in 2017 against Marine Le Pen ?

MICHEL GURFINKIEL

During his epic campaign in Egypt, Napoleon Bonaparte organized a 400 hundred-man dromedary-mounted regiment and made a point of being portrayed himself as riding the swift exotic animal. It is a sign of the times — and France’s fading fortunes — that the present president of France, Emmanuel Macron, was recently depicted on the cover of a respected right-of-centre magazine as riding un escargot, meaning, a snail.

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