Short cuts
May 22, 2022
1 minute
iven French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent narrow victory over far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, what is the future of France? It might help to look to the past to understand. Few), “energetic and illuminating” (), it begins with the meeting of the Roman army and the Gauls and ends with the gilets jaunes, via many offbeat tracks such as the English prostitute who funded Napoleon III’s career and the elm tree said to stand at the centre of the nation.
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