Zemmour’s ideas are nothing new.
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Zemmour’s statements about universalism, assimilation and “separatism” have deep roots in the history of the French Republic.
Youssoupha performs at the Urban Peace concert at the Stade de France, September 2013.
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Recent polemical debates over French rappers Youssoupha and Médine show that rap is still not accepted by the political mainstream.
Marine Le Pen gives a speech in Marseille, March 2020.
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The south-eastern region of France known as PACA has long been a centre of power for the far-right, but recent failures in the regional elections bring its future into question for Marine Le Pen.
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France has undergone thirteen major political shifts since 1789, and yet there have been very few major changes to the country’s elite.
French president, Emmanuel Macron: trapped in an endless cycle of crisis.
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Sky-high abstention rates reveal the weakness of Emmanuel Macron’s political project.
Protestors march in Paris following one of the recent attacks.
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Why are Emmanuel Macron’s reform plans so controversial and why are people protesting about freedom after another spate of violent attacks?
EPA/ Antonio Pedro Santos
The French president presents himself to all things to all people – leaving voters with less meaningful choice at the ballot box.
EPA-EFE/Guillaume Horcajuelo
French rail transport is grinding to a halt. Teachers, truck drivers, lawyers and judges are also threatening to strike indefinitely.
Jacques Chirac has died, aged 86.
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The most popular president of the Fifth Republic actually achieved alarmingly little during his tenure.
Macron visits a cemetery where graves have been vandalised.
EPA/ Frederick Florin
The embattled president must use this moment to end centuries of ambiguity over the place of Jews in French society.
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The winter woes facing the French president and British prime minister are surprisingly similar.
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Who are the ‘gilets jaunes’, what do they want and how has France’s political establishment responded to their populist challenge?
EPA/Ian Langsdon
The 50th anniversary of major student unrest was perhaps not the ideal moment to propose controversial higher education reforms.
Beautifully balanced.
EPA/Ludovic Marin
The French president’s exciting new philosophy is to be neither right or left. In practice, that really just means reinforcing the status quo.
Stretching the limits of civil liberties.
EPA/Christian Bruna
France has been living under a a state of emergency for nearly two years. The president now wants to make some of its most controversial elements permanent law.
Out in force.
EPA/Christophe Petit Tesson
Emmanuel Macron’s honeymoon period as French president is over.
Mme Soazig de la Moissonniere/Elysee.
Macron’s portrait and taste in literature are full of political symbols to be sussed.
A Le Pen campaign rally in Villepinte, France on May 1, 2017.
REUTERS/Charles Platiau
Populist parties like France’s Front National typically stress traditional family values. So is it possible for them to appeal to traditional leftist voters like single women and the queer community?
EPA/Christophe Archambault
A huge number of new politicians have joined the National Assembly after the 2017 election.
Macron during the first round of parliamentary elections on June 11, 2017.
REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer
France’s new En Marche! party is on track to win 400 legislative seats, another victory for the country’s young president.